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

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
Cc: Rainer Orth <ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de>,Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems dot com>,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
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:06:43 +0100
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <yddu14z3z8z.fsf@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <87k75u98bu.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>

> It's to avoid unnecessary minor barriers to the use of GNU software on
> Solaris hosts.  config.guess currently uses incorrect version numbers
> for Solaris, and this needlessly confuses new and potential users and
> installers of GNU software on Solaris.

What's the point in exchanging a minor barrier for a major maintainance 
problem?

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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