Re: configure.in support for FreeBSD ia64/sparc64/powerpc

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

  > >>>>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
  > 
  > >>> Was this tested on GNU/Linux
  > 
  > >> Yes.
  > 
  > >>> and Solaris (and all other sparc64 platforms)?
  > 
  > >> No.
  > 
  > > I've now asked our Prefix team to test this on Sparc/Solaris too,
  > > see Gentoo bug 251667, <http://bugs.gentoo.org/251667>.
  > 
  > I don't know if it's sufficient as a test, but basic editing, as well
  > as byte-compiling a large package like CEDET seems to work flawlessly
  > on Solaris.
  > 
  > So maybe the original patch should be committed, without the
  > additional check for FreeBSD.

If this has not been tested on all versions of Solaris that we currently
support, that won't be a good idea at this point in the release
process.  We know for sure that the original code works.