Re: [COMMITTED] Remove obsolete Solaris 11.3 support

[Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Hi Richard,

> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 10:54 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Rainer,
>>
>> On Fri, 2024-05-10 at 10:20 +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
>> > > > Support for Solaris 11.3 had already been obsoleted in GCC 13.  However,
>> > > > since the only Solaris system in the cfarm was running 11.3, I've kept
>> > > > it in tree until now when both Solaris 11.4/SPARC and x86 systems have
>> > > > been added.
>> > > >
>> > > > This patch actually removes the Solaris 11.3 support.
>> > >
>> > > I'm not sure I like this change since Solaris 11.3 is the last version of
>> > > Solaris supported by a large number of SPARC systems.
>> > >
>> > > Oracle unfortunately raised the hardware baseline with Solaris 11.4 such
>> > > that every system older than the SPARC T4 is no longer supported by 11.4
>> > > while 11.3 still runs perfectly fine on these machines.
>> >
>> > I wonder why you didn't raise your concerns 1 1/2 years ago when I
>> > announced the obsoletion of Solaris 11.3 support?
>>
>> Because I wasn't subscribed to gcc-patches and I'm also only subscribed now
>> without receiving messages due to the large message volume on this list.
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html

exactly, and the announcement also went to the main gcc list:

	https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2022-December/240322.html

No need to follow gcc-patches at all.

Besides, if John had ever tried to build either GCC 13 or 14 on Solaris
11.3, gcc/configure would have told him about the obsoletion in no
uncertain terms.

	Rainer

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