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

Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Thu Nov 20 21:19:00 GMT 2003


Paul Eggert writes:

> > I've just checked am-utils, ntp, and pidentd, and all of them are
> > affected.
> 
> No doubt other programs will be affected too.  But these programs are
> a relative handful.

This list came up from the first three that came to mind (and that I
contributed to at some point).  You create work for many maintainers for no
value to them whatsoever, only obscuring the configure scripts with
handling for solaris2.<x>, solaris<x> and some solaris<n> (or whatever)
when Sun comes up with a new name.

A continued burden which removes clarity from those scripts, in exchange
for a little less newby confusion (who will be confused by SunOS 5.x
vs. Solaris 2.x/x anyway).

	Rainer



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