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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> >It seems to me that we should make the change.
> >Referring to system versions by the same numbers that
> >the publisher uses is a good idea in general.
> >It will take a fairly small amount of work to adapt
> >a bounded set of GNU packages to this change.
> >So we may as well do it.
> >
> >
> What about the thousands of non-GNU packages that use config.guess?
>
> It's the same basic idea. We never made a commitment to avoid
> ever having an incompatible change.
I think there's an expectation, though, since incompatible changes
have not happened before (at least, I cannot think of any previous
incident). I am with Eric on this: config.guess should not change
its output in an incompatible fashion. Ever.
config.sub should certainly recognize -solaris7+ as equivalent to
-solaris2.7+.
zw
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- flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
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