As just announced, here's the patch to the GCC 4.7 changes.html to
document the IRIX and Tru64 UNIX obsoletions, together with the
-compat-bsd removal.
I don't need approval for the patch, but would be grateful for
improvements to wording.
Thanks.
Rainer
2011-07-01 Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
* htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html: Document IRIX 6.5, Tru64 UNIX V5.1
obsoletion
Document -compat-bsd removal.
Index: htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 changes.html
--- htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html 28 May 2011 08:05:36 -0000 1.18
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html 1 Jul 2011 10:13:37 -0000
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@
particular architectures have been obsoleted:</p>
<ul>
+ <li>IRIX 6.5 (mips-sgi-irix6.5)</li>
+ <li>MIPS OpenBSD (mips*-*-openbsd*)</li>
<li>Solaris 8 (*-*-solaris2.8). Details can be found in the
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01263.html";>
announcement</a>.</li>
- <li>MIPS OpenBSD (mips*-*-openbsd*).</li>
+ <li>Tru64 UNIX V5.1 (alpha*-dec-osf5.1*)</li>
</ul>
</li>
@@ -35,6 +37,12 @@
<li>Support has been removed for Unix International threads on Solaris
2, so the <code>--enable-threads=solaris</code> configure option and
the <code>-threads</code> compiler option don't work any longer.</li>
+ <li>Support has been removed for the Solaris BSD Compatibility Package,
+ which lives in <code>/usr/ucbinclude</code> and
+ <code>/usr/ucblib</code>. It has been removed from Solaris 11, and was
+ only intended as a migration aid from SunOS 4 to SunOS 5. The
+ <code>-compat-bsd</code> compiler option isn't recognized any
+ longer.</li>
</ul>
<h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2>
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
