Re: patch to config/solaris/bits/ctype_base.h

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at jaj dot com>]

This message is actually from Benjamin; he can't connect from whatever
network wasteland he's visiting during the holidays (*grin*) and so he
sent me a copy of the bounced message, appended below.

I don't have results for the status page yet, but I'll be posting my
testsuite results in a bit, and the patches for Solaris 7.


> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:51:58 -0600 (CST)
> From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@nabi.net>
> To: libstdc++@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: re: patch to config/solaris/bits/ctype_base.h
>
> Phil. the solaris stuff in CVS actually works on solaris2.6 now, but I
> hadn't tested it on solaris2.7: it looks like it needs to be tweaked for
> both 2.5.1 and 2.7. Which really means that the naming convention has to
> change for this directory, and we need to test for attributes and name
> them accordingly, not os versions or oses. . ..
>
> Just post the patches for solaris 2.6 as a unifed set to the list with a
> changelog, and I can see what's up when I get back. If somebody could do
> this for solaris2.5.1 it would be great.
>
> This was just to put into place a less hacked solution. The final form is
> a bit uncertain, but I'm pretty pleased with the general approach.
>
> So, does the solaris 2.7 io stuff basically work? It should give results
> more in line with linux. (I think there was one or two additional failures
> on 2.6, but is was mostly the same.)
>
> Actually, if you have results for the status page you might as well update
> it.
>
> Thanks,
> -benjamin