On Fri, 21 Apr 2023, Rainer Orth wrote:
> * We used a mixture of Solaris 2 and Solaris references. Since Solaris
> 1/SunOS 4 is ancient history by now, consistently use Solaris
> everywhere. Likewise, explicit references to Solaris 11 can go in
> many places since Solaris 11.3 and 11.4 is all GCC supports.
Thanks for going through this - this is great. (I had a look recently
and wanted to raise that we have some older cruft that looked like it
could go.)
> Will commit to trunk soon. Ok for the gcc-13 branch, too?
Yes, please.
There's only a few suggestions/recommendations:
"on Solaris" (without "a")-@uref{https://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW}
+@uref{https://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW}. However, the packages there
+are mostly outdated or actually harmful on Solaris 11.3 and 11.4.
@end itemize
Would it make sense to simple drop this, then?
In the following two cases
+@file{/usr/gnu/bin/as}), are known to work. The current version, from
+GNU binutils 2.40, is known to work as well. Recent versions of the
and
+works, as does the latest version, from GNU binutils 2.40. However, it
how about saying "The version from GNU binutil 2.40" and "as does the
version from GNU binutils 2.50", respectively?
"current" and "latest" are fleeting concepts.
+Solaris @command{ld}, it is recommended to configure with
Can we make this active form, i.e., "we recommend"? Or simply omit the
"it is recommended to" part. Both are shorter and clearer; personally I
recommend to latter.
+library or the MPC library on a Solaris, the canonical
"on Solaris" (without "a")
Thank you,
Gerald
