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

Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Thu Nov 20 21:15:00 GMT 2003 
Eric Botcazou writes:

> What's the point in exchanging a minor barrier for a major maintainance 
> problem?

Exactly: all messages Paul came up with were from users wondering about the
discrepancy between their knowledge of the O/S version and the config.guess
output.  The same kind of confusion comes up regularly between SunOS 5.x
and Solaris 2.x/Solaris x, and is resolved as soon as it is explained
(usually by pointing people at the Solaris 2 FAQ).

In all cases, the guess achieved exactly what was desired, no user had
tried to specify e.g. sparc-sun-solaris8 (which is unnecessary except in
the most extraordinary circumstances) and failed.  So what we have works
perfectly well and will continue to do so, while a change is only of
cosmetic value (and the *-*-solaris[789], *-*-solaris1? route is at the
continued mercy of Sun marketing droids).

This is a sure way to anger lots of maintainers for no obvious value.

	Rainer
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