SunOS ports (M68k and sparc)

[Joe Buck]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > I do not think we should restore SunOS -- or any other obsoleted
> > target -- just because someone offers to maintain the port...
> > someone maintain the port doesn't magically free all the rest of us
> > from the burden of keeping that port up to date with changes made to
> > target-independent code.  I think we should only restore such targets
> > if compelling reasons are presented why the entire GCC community
> > should bear the additional burden of supporting these old systems.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 07:42:17PM +0200, Jones Desougi wrote:
> Good points.
> With just me interested in these ports there is hardly compelling
> reasons.
> 
> As good as an older version of GCC may be, it will not support newer
> standards (or additional languages). It is still far better than the
> system compiler of course.

If the reason for your interest is to make use of some old hardware that
you have, you might want to investigate running Debian or BSD instead of
SunOS.