[PATCH v2] Obsolete support for Solaris < 10

[Rainer Orth]

Hi Jan,

> On 27.11.2025 10:27, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> On 27.11.2025 10:04, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>>> Support for Solaris 8 and 9 has long been removed from GCC:
>>>>
>>>> * Solaris 8 support in GCC 4.8 (2013)
>>>>
>>>> * Solaris 9 support in GCC 5 (2015)
>>>>
>>>> so it's time to obsolete anything before Solaris 10 in binutils, too.
>>>
>>> But according to the actual code change and ...
>>>
>>>> Both haven't even built since binutils 2.41.
>>>
>>> ... (aiui) this related statement, they were already marked obsolete. What
>>> instead you do is un-obsolete Solaris 2.10 and 2.11. That's fine with me,
>>> but needs describing accordingly (including to make the subject unambiguous).
>> 
>> I think you misread the patch and the situation: On current trunk, no
>> Solaris version at all is obsoleted.
>
> Hmm, yes, I indeed misread it. But then what's the 2.41 related sentence about?

It just says that even though Solaris 8/9 weren't obsoleted, they didn't
build for quite some time and no one noticed/complained.  This might
even argue for immediate removal instead of obsoletion.

> Also, please don't drop the null part. See the later case command about removed
> targets, where the null is retained despite there being a long list. Keeping it
> will make more obvious what it should go back to when the Solaris cases are
> moved to that other case command.

Good point.  Here's the revised patch, retested as before, description
and ChangeLog unchanged.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University


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