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

Paul Eggert eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU
Mon Nov 24 20:46:00 GMT 2003 
Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> writes:

> > Only the numbers mentioned on this thread.  I think about 10 programs
> > have been mentioned as being affected by this change, most of which
> > are not GNU programs.
> 
> Are you sure they are the only ones?

No: on the contrary, I expect that there are a few more.  However,
it's still the case that only a very small number of programs are
affected, compared to the hundreds (or thousands?) of programs that
use config.guess and config.sub.


> > Hmm, well, I currently have 60 students compiling sources on Solaris
> > boxes.  They're all Solaris newbies.
> 
> Did they run into the 'minor barrier'?

Not this academic quarter; they're using Python, which isn't affected.
However, in past quarters I have had them build GCC, so they were
affected.  (Others in my department think I'm crazy to have
undergraduates look inside GCC; they prefer to teach with toy
compilers.  But I digress....)


> > Not all SunOS-specific files in GCC are named sol2*. Only files
> > specific to SunOS 5.0 and later have that name.  Other files have
> > sunos4* names and suchlike.
> 
> I don't see any in the mainline sources.

Ah, OK, you must be referring to the current CVS, which has ripped out
support for SunOS 4 and earlier.  I was referring to the latest stable
version, GCC 3.3.2, which still has some files with sunos4* names.
But at any rate this discrepancy is a minor one, as I'm not proposing
to rename all those files right now.
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