Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> writes:
> I think the time has come to obsolete Solaris 9 support:
>
> * According to
>
> http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lsp-coverage-sun-software-309122.pdf,
> p.17, Premier Support has already ended in October 2011 and even
> Extended Support will end in October 2014, which means it's impossible
> to get patches without a special contract. By the time GCC 4.10 is
> expected to be released (Spring 2015), this period is well past. This
> timescale is in line with what happened for Solaris 7 (obsoleted in
> GCC 4.5) and Solaris 8 (obsoleted in GCC 4.7).
>
> * Solaris 9 seems to be far less popular than Solaris 8 was: last time I
> checked there was only a single Solaris 9 testresults posting apart
> from my own.
>
> * By the time Solaris 12 appears, I'll need to reduce the testing matrix
> to keep the amount of work manageable.
>
> Therefore the following patch does just that. Tested by
> configuring/building without and with --enable-obsolete and checking
> gccinstall.info on i386-pc-solaris2.9. The config-list.mk part is
> untested, but should be straightforward.
>
> Unless there are strong objections, I plan to install this patch in a
> day or two.
Given that there were no comments, I installed the patch.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
