[Bug other/38783] [Regression] - The triplet i386-pc-solaris2.11 is ambiguous

2009-01-23 Thread rob1weld at aol dot com 


--- Comment #3 from rob1weld at aol dot com  2009-01-23 12:25 ---
 From: Ben Elliston b...@air.net.au
 To: rob1w...@aol.com
 Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 8:12 pm
 Subject: Re: Patch for config.guess

 Hi Rob,
 
 Thanks for your report.
 
  The script config.guess lumps together many of Sun's Operating
  Systems into one identifier. To save attempting to parse all the
  names of the various versions it is easier to rely on the Kernel
  version number.
 
  This is discussed here:
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38783
 
 I read the bug report.  Solaris is no different to other operating
 systems that we have detected in config.guess for many years.  We have
 traditionally tried to strike a balance between providing enough
 information for GNU packages that care (ie. GCC) and providing too
 much information (such as the specific build number of the kernel).
 
 If there are specific kernel problems that you are trying to work
 around, it is usually more reliable to have a configure test that
 switches on the config.guess triplet and then actually detects the
 presence of the problem.
 
 Cheers, Ben

Thanks for considering my request and reading my Bug Report over 
at gcc's Bugzilla.

 ... tried to strike a balance between providing enough information for  
 GNU packages that care (ie. GCC) and providing too much information ...

Agreed. It would not have been great to make the Identifier larger and 
it would certainly not have been pretty, but there is a lot of overlap 
between different OSes.

Since My Operating System is correctly reported (or you could file a 
Bug Report) I have nothing to worry about. The people who program gcc 
(and other software) will simply have to figure out from the given 
Identifier which OS they are dealing with and know what to test for.

Thanks,
Rob


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[Bug other/38783] [Regression] - The triplet i386-pc-solaris2.11 is ambiguous

2009-01-09 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 


--- Comment #1 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2009-01-09 20:10 ---
This is a bug in either config.guess or uname so this is not a GCC issue.


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pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
 Resolution||INVALID


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38783

[Bug other/38783] [Regression] - The triplet i386-pc-solaris2.11 is ambiguous

2009-01-09 Thread rob1weld at aol dot com 


--- Comment #2 from rob1weld at aol dot com  2009-01-10 03:08 ---
OK, I'm going to propose:


# gdiff -Naur config.BACKUP2.guess config.guess

--- config.BACKUP2.guess2009-01-09 19:01:21.178338502 -0800
+++ config.guess2009-01-09 19:04:59.921763936 -0800
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #   2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
 #   Free Software Foundation, Inc.

-timestamp='2008-12-19'
+timestamp='2009-01-09'

 # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
SUN_ARCH=x86_64
fi
fi
-   echo ${SUN_ARCH}-pc-solaris2`echo ${UNAME_RELEASE}|sed -e 's/[^.]*//'`
+   echo ${SUN_ARCH}-pc-solaris2`echo ${UNAME_RELEASE}.${UNAME_VERSION}|sed
-e 's/[^.]*//'`
exit ;;
 sun4*:SunOS:6*:*)
# According to config.sub, this is the proper way to canonicalize


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