[csw-maintainers] V8+ binaries from now on

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 26.03.2010 um 12:50 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>> Hi Roger,
>> Am 26.03.2010 um 11:29 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>>> On 2010-03-26 11:22, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
>>>> In the past, packages were getting rejected if they had V8+  
>>>> binaries
>>>> for SPARC.  I vaguely recall this being related to Solaris 8.  Now
>>>> that we dropped it, is it okay to ship V8+ binaries?
>>>
>>> V8+ was introduced with sun4u and unfortunately, Sun did only drop
>>> the support for sun4d (SS10) in Solaris 9, sun4m (SS5/5/20) was
>>> still supported.
>>> However, I would say that of the small percentage still running
>>> Solaris 9, I can't think that there are that many being sun4m.
>>
>> But we should stick to sparcv8 then as before.
>
> The Old Clunker Syndrome all over!
>
> Another constraint that we like to keep. Or maybe not?

If we support Solaris 9 we should support all platforms it runs on.
Sticking to sparcv8 instead of sparcv8plus is one different argument
in CFLAGS and changing it gains very little. Additional builds for
both ISAs is one flag in GAR to add, so no problem.


Best regards

   -- Dago