[csw-maintainers] Solaris 9 and amd64

[Peter Bonivart]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński's message of Sat Jun 23 05:28:14 -0400 2012:
>
> Hi Maciej,
>
>> reference to $(GARCH) in the MySQL recipe[2], but it didn't work. Any
>> other ideas?
>
> Mabye we should just declare solaris 9 entirely dead instead of just
> 'best effort'?  We can jump through all sorts of hoops to keep it
> going but at the end of the day, we're complicating either recipes or
> GAR itself in order to accommodate something the vendor no longer
> maintains.  I think we'd be misspending cycles to continue down this
> path (and other similar ones that will arise as time passes).

I think we should both drop Solaris 9 and make gcc the default compiler.

/peter