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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- From: <tm_gccmail at kloo dot net>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com,gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, rms at gnu dot org, eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:28:13 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
On 20 Nov 2003, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Paul Eggert has been asking over the course of the last year when
> config.{guess,sub} will start to correctly identify Solaris version
> numbers. The problem is that config.guess misidentifies Solaris 7, 8,
> and 9, and it will probably misidentify Solaris 10 (unless Sun
> marketing changes Solaris names again). For example, on a Solaris 8
> box, config.guess outputs "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"; but there never was
> and never will be a "Solaris 2.8", as Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) was
> immediately followed by Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7).
Doesn't uname identify the OS as "SunOS 5.x" ?
If so, I don't see a real reason for this change.
Toshi