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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Drop ancient Solaris 9 and earlier s
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Drop ancient Solaris 9 and earlier support |
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Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:37:03 -0500 |
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On 07/13/2017 09:21 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Solaris 9 was released in 2002, its successor Solaris 10 was
> released in 2005, and Solaris 9 was end-of-lifed in 2014.
> Nobody has stepped forward to express interest in supporting
> Solaris of any flavour, so removing support for the ancient
> versions seems uncontroversial.
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> In particular, this allows us to remove a use of 'uname'
> in configure that won't work if you're cross-compiling.
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> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
> Not a big thing, but it's a start on cleaning out some
> of the untested and untestable cruft from configure...
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
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