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

On Dec  4, 2003, "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> (People have already written configure scripts that expect Solaris
> 10 will be identified as *-sun-solaris2.10.)

Should we care about those who have guessed wrong?  I think it would
be ok for us to report *-sun-solaris10 for Solaris 10 and above.  It
wouldn't break the property for earlier OSs.

The only catch is that earlier config.guess scripts would (probably)
still report sparc-sun-solaris2.10, so newer configure scripts could
be written based on this dated assumption and break.  But people are
encouraged to ship new software using the latest copies of these
files, so I don't consider this a big deal.

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