flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Zack Weinberg
zack@codesourcery.com
Thu Dec 4 23:27:00 GMT 2003
Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:04:38PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> I like the approach, but I think we'd be better off using solaris10
>> for Solaris 10/SunOS 5.10, just because then solaris* would still
>> match. Solaris 10 is more like Solaris 2+ than SunOS 4, which most
>> sunos* matches would get. At which point, we could probably do
>> without the preference switches.
>
> Agreed; if we are going to make a change, it should preserve "solaris"
> and abandon the "sunos".
I still haven't seen even a weak argument for making any change at
all. So the canonical system names are inconsistent with Sun's
marketing names; why does anyone even care?
zw
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