Re: Obsolete Solaris 10 support

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:13 AM C Bergström <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> wrote:
>
> Is there anyone in the *open* solaris or variant camp who may be impacted
> by this? SOL10 gets deprecated and I doubt anyone will really cry fowl, but
> can it negatively impact any of the similar open source projects that may
> identify at SOL10, but not be exactly the same... Thoughts?

The OpenCSW folks (https://www.opencsw.org/) may have some feedback.
They still provide back to Solaris 9 on both x86 and Sparc.

I believe the person to ping would be:

    Dagobert Michelsen
    dam@opencsw.org

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:59 PM Rainer Orth <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Solaris 10 is reaching the end of its support live, as can be seen in
> > the following overview based on
> > http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lsp-coverage-sun-software-309122.pdf
> > ,
> > p.29:
> >
> > Release    GA Date  Last     Premier  Extended GCC
> >                     Update   Support  Support  Obsoletion Removal
> >
> > Solaris 8  Feb 2000 Feb 2002 Mar 2009 Mar 2012 Mar 2011   Mar 2012
> > Solaris 9  Mar 2002 Sep 2005 Oct 2011 Oct 2014 May 2013   Apr 2014
> > Solaris 10 Jan 2005 Jan 2013 Jan 2018 Jan 2021 May? 2019  May? 2020
> >
> > Also, there's an increasing number of failures and workarounds for as
> > and ld bugs necessary, which makes continued support for that 13 year
> > old OS version more and more of a nuisance.
> >
> > Besides, here's what I found when checking gcc-testresults postings for
> > Solaris 10 by anyone but myself since 2016:
> >
> > Release         2016    2017    2018
> >
> > 6.x             3       2
> > 7.x                     2       1
> > 8.x                             4
> >
> > Therefore I think it's time to obsolete support for that version in GCC 9,
> > thus removing it in GCC 10.
> >
> > I'm going to post patches for the actual obsoletion and an entry for
> > wwwdocs shortly.