On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:54:07PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Derek Price asked: > > In a recent discussion on bug-gnulib of the GNULIB stat & lstat modules, > > GNULIB admins Jim Meyering, Bruno, and Paul Eggert agreed that it was no > > longer useful to support SunOS 4.1.4 in GNULIB since even Sun stopped > > supporting it over a year ago (handy dead OS reference here: > > <http://www.softwaredevelopment.ca/fyios.shtml>). Has this changed? > > This has not changed: we don't support SunOS 4 any more in gnulib. But > nevertheless, since James Youngman wants to support it for findutils, I > try to be helpful anyway.
I'd like to clarify. In response to Jason's question about a compilation problem on SunOS 4.1.4 I suggested that the denizens of bug-gnulib might be able to clarify the way forward for his particular problem (e.g. whether they would accept a patch). Findutils uses a substantial amount of gnulib code; I would not want the gnulib maintainers to think that I thought they should put in extra effort to maintain support for SunOS 4.1.4. I don't have the spare time to try to support SunOS 4.x either, so I wouldn't expect you guys to support it. I did say it "would be nice" if it worked, but then it would be nice if everything in general worked. Sadly, maintainers' time is finite. Regards, James. _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
