Is there anyone in the *open* solaris or variant camp who may be impacted by this? SOL10 gets deprecated and I doubt anyone will really cry fowl, but can it negatively impact any of the similar open source projects that may identify at SOL10, but not be exactly the same... Thoughts?
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:59 PM Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > Solaris 10 is reaching the end of its support live, as can be seen in > the following overview based on > > > http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lsp-coverage-sun-software-309122.pdf > , > p.29: > > Release GA Date Last Premier Extended GCC > Update Support Support Obsoletion Removal > > Solaris 8 Feb 2000 Feb 2002 Mar 2009 Mar 2012 Mar 2011 Mar 2012 > Solaris 9 Mar 2002 Sep 2005 Oct 2011 Oct 2014 May 2013 Apr 2014 > Solaris 10 Jan 2005 Jan 2013 Jan 2018 Jan 2021 May? 2019 May? 2020 > > Also, there's an increasing number of failures and workarounds for as > and ld bugs necessary, which makes continued support for that 13 year > old OS version more and more of a nuisance. > > Besides, here's what I found when checking gcc-testresults postings for > Solaris 10 by anyone but myself since 2016: > > Release 2016 2017 2018 > > 6.x 3 2 > 7.x 2 1 > 8.x 4 > > Therefore I think it's time to obsolete support for that version in GCC 9, > thus removing it in GCC 10. > > I'm going to post patches for the actual obsoletion and an entry for > wwwdocs shortly. > > Rainer > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University >
