On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-developer wrote:
For some value of incompatible. I think you’d find that what really happens is that compilation by default is standards compliant, and really most people will find that everything Just Works. The exceptions will be some edge cases that probably impact few people … of course those things that depend upon on “uname” are going to break, but that’s part of the motivation of *changing* uname. :-)
As mentioned before, one thing which will break is GNU autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool, and config.guess). Most free software packages have a copy of GNU autotools embedded in them in order for them to compile. It is possible to update the autotools used for an existing package, but source code edits are often required.
Changing the OS reported by uname is a quick way to become marginalized since free software packages won't compile any more.
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