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Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 9 support
- From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Rainer Orth <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "classpath at gnu dot org" <classpath at gnu dot org>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Andrew Hughes <gnu_andrew at member dot fsf dot org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:22:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 9 support
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On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 09:03 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 04/16/2014 12:16 PM, Rainer Orth wrote:
> > * I'm removing the <sys/loadavg.h> check from classpath. Again, I'm
> > uncertain if this is desirable. In the past, classpath changes were
> > merged upstream by one of the libjava maintainers.
>
> We should not diverge from GNU Classpath unless there is a strong reason
> to do so.
I think the configure check is mostly harmless, but wouldn't be opposed
removing it. It really seems to have been added explicitly for Solaris
9, which is probably really dead by now. Andrew Hughes, you added it
back in 2008. Are you still using/building on any Solaris 9 setups?
Cheers,
Mark