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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe dot FR>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: rms at gnu dot org, eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU, bje at wasabisystems dot com,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:26:51 +0100
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87wu9mt79r.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <871xrs5b9j.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87znegqb31.fsf@codesourcery.com> <87brqsw9d9.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <871xroqlaf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87n0aaj4cl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87wu9esxu6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <E1ARacX-0004dy-6z@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ad69rf42.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>

> Paul Eggert already presented evidence that roughly 10% of a sample of
> configure.in scripts not only look at the configuration name, but
> match it against patterns containing the string "solaris" or "sunos".

I don't find this surprising. I would also not be surprised if the vast
majority actually match against "solaris*", which would be just fine.

Arno

References:
- Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
  - From: Paul Eggert
- Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
  - From: Paul Eggert
- Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
  - From: Richard Stallman
- Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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