Re: [COMMITTED] Remove obsolete Solaris 11.3 support

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

Hi Jan,

> On Friday 2024-05-10 15:59, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca> writes:
>>
>>> On 2024-05-10 07:44, Rainer Orth wrote (in part):
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> No, the option --enable-obsolete has allowed me to build on my T2000
>>> running Solaris 11.3 until recently.  (I just built GCC 14.1.0 on said 
>>> machine.)
>>
>>of course, but with default options you get a message indicating the
>>obsoletion:
>>
>>      echo "*** Configuration ${target}${target_min} is obsolete." >&2
>>      echo "*** Specify --enable-obsolete to build it anyway." >&2
>>      echo "*** Support will be REMOVED in the next major release of GCC," >&2
>>      echo "*** unless a maintainer comes forward." >&2
>>
>>So nobody can say they didn't know about the obsoletion.
>
> I can. With my distro hat on, I can tell you that, when rpmbuild/dpkg-build*
> completes with exit status 0, there certainly is much reduced incentive to go
> looking at the build log.

but without --enable-obsolete (which is off by default), the build will
abort with exit 1 on an obsolete target.  This simply cannot be
overlooked.

	Rainer

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