Solaris 8/SPARC bootstrap broken building 64-bit libgcc

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jeff Sturm wrote:
>> sparc-sun-solaris2.7 is a primary evaluation platform for our releases
>> and as such should be regression tested before releases without any
>> regressions.
> Has there been any thought given to bumping this requirement to some
> non-ancient release like Solaris 8 or 9?  I for one haven't had access to
> a 2.7 machine in nearly two years.

Good point.  Concerning version updates on other platforms we have been
"liberal" in the past (not requiring Steering Committee intervention or
some such), so I'm Cc:ing Mark.

> The differences can be significant, as evidenced by a late fix prior to
> releasing 3.3.  (Of course we wouldn't like to introduce regressions on
> any release, but in practice it's becoming difficult to support anything
> prior to 2.7 now.

Mark, how about updating sparc-sun-solaris2.7 to sparc-sun-solaris2.8?

I agree that this looks like a god idea.

Gerald
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