Continuing to support Solaris 8 is starting to cause lots of trouble:
* Regular support has ended in March 2009, and even extended support
with special arrangements will end in March 2012.
* Access to Solaris 8 patches is restricted to customers with such
arrangements, which I'm not.
* While I can test Solaris 8/SPARC in a Solaris 8 Branded Zone running
on Solaris 10, this testing is limited since only the non-default
alternate thread library is supported there. I could test on bare
metal if need be, but this will likely go away.
* Solaris 8/x86 testing is even worse: running it inside VirtualBox is
dog slow and unreliable and Xen doesn't work at all. I've finally
been able to get myself a machine old enough to still run it or hack
newer machines into running it, but I doubt all this trouble is worth
it.
Therefore I'll soon commit this patch to obsolete Solaris 8 support in
4.7. It will be removed in 4.8 then.
Tested by configuring with --with-target i386-pc-solaris2.8 and noting
the build fail in the gcc subdir, while it continues to work with
--enable-obsolete.
Rainer
2011-03-19 Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
* config.gcc: Obsolete *-*-solaris2.8*.
* doc/install.texi (Specific, *-*-solaris2*): Document it.
diff -r 08a2bc3273f5 gcc/config.gcc
--- a/gcc/config.gcc Sat Mar 19 09:24:43 2011 +0100
+++ b/gcc/config.gcc Sat Mar 19 09:31:53 2011 +0100
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@
| powerpc*-*-gnu* \
| score-* \
| sh*-*-symbianelf* \
+ | *-*-solaris2.8* \
| vax-*-netbsd* \
)
if test "x$enable_obsolete" != xyes; then
diff -r 08a2bc3273f5 gcc/doc/install.texi
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi Sat Mar 19 09:24:43 2011 +0100
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi Sat Mar 19 09:31:53 2011 +0100
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
@c Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
@c 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
-@c 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, d...@wakerley.com
@c IMPORTANT: whenever you modify this file, run `install.texi2html' to
@@ -4136,7 +4136,9 @@
@c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
@heading @anchor{x-x-solaris2}*-*-solaris2*
-Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
+Support for Solaris 8 has been obsoleted in GCC 4.7, but can still be
+enabled by configuring with @option{--enable-obsolete}. Support will be
+removed in GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2, though you can download
the Sun Studio compilers for free. Alternatively,
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
