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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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