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

Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org
Tue Nov 25 04:37:00 GMT 2003


    >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.



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