On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:13 AM C Bergström <cbergst...@pathscale.com> wrote: > > 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?
The OpenCSW folks (https://www.opencsw.org/) may have some feedback. They still provide back to Solaris 9 on both x86 and Sparc. I believe the person to ping would be: Dagobert Michelsen d...@opencsw.org > 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.
