Re: 3.0.1 PATCH: install.texi updates for Solaris 2

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Rainer Orth wrote:
> I'm copying the SPARC maintainers for comments.  Since this issue comes up
> over and over again both on gcc mailing lists, PRs and various Solaris
> newsgroups, we should document that current state of affairs.

Yes, indeed.

> If my assessment is accurate, it will go on the branch only, since all
> this is supposed to be fixed on the trunk.

Agreed.

> * a way to collectively refer to (a group of or all) Solaris 2 releases,
>   i.e. 2.0 - 2.6, 7, 8, ...  I suggest to use Solaris 2 for this purpose,
>   since this shouldn't include Solaris 1 (formerly SunOS 4.x) which is
>   completely different.

Yes, this makes sense.

> * a way to refer to individual releases, like Solaris 2.5.1 or Solaris 7.
>   Instead of using e.g. Solaris 2.7 here (which doesn't exist), I'd like to
>   use the `real' name here.

Okay. For the target triplets we have to use sparc-sun-solaris2.7, though.
Perhaps we could add "(Solaris 7)" after the first occurrence of the
target triplets, like in the table of contents, for example?

> I know this is terribly confusing, but some Sun marketing droid is guilty
> of all this mess, and we shouldn't add to it ourselves.  So ok to leave the
> Solaris 7 reference as is?

I'll have a look at the updated patch when it's ready, but basically, yes.

Would it make sense to split your patch into smaller parts, so that we
can install parts of it immediately, and also because some parts are
applicable both to the 3.0-branch and mainline, while others should go
to one of these only?

Gerald
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/