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flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

Albert Chin-A-Young china@thewrittenword.com
Thu Nov 20 19:46:00 GMT 2003 
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:14:30PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Paul Eggert writes:
> > > What's the rationale...?
> > 
> > It's to avoid unnecessary minor barriers to the use of GNU software on
> > Solaris hosts.  config.guess currently uses incorrect version numbers
> > for Solaris, and this needlessly confuses new and potential users and
> > installers of GNU software on Solaris.
> 
> As indicated by what?  I've never seen such a complaint before, and it's
> almost never necessary to specify such a configure triplet manually since
> it's guessed correctly.

Scripts that admins have that depend on config.guess to determine the
platform name might break. I don't see this change having any value.

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
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