bug#1191: How to contribute back changes for Emacs on Solaris

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Ali Bahrami <ali_gnu@emvision.com> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > > Ali Bahrami <ali_gnu@emvision.com> writes:
  > >
  > >   > Dan,
  > >   >   >    I made the changes you suggested to the
  > > src/s/sol2-10.h. I
  > >   > pulled a copy of CVS head, and produced diffs for configure.in based
  > >   > on that. Both items are below, delimited by '=======' lines.
  > >
  > > Thanks, I checked this in, with some simplifications.
  > >
  > >   > =========================================================================
  > >   > *** configure.in.orig   Wed Oct 22 20:40:42 2008
  > >   > --- configure.in        Wed Oct 22 20:53:20 2008
  > >   > ***************
  > >   > *** 442,449 ****
  > >   >     ;;
  > >   >   >     *-sun-solaris* \
  > >   > !     | i[3456]86-*-solaris2* | i[3456]86-*-sunos5* | powerpc*-*-solaris2* \
  > >   > !     | rs6000-*-solaris2*)
  > >   >       case "${canonical}" in
  > >   >         i[3456]86-*-* )     machine=intel386 ;;
  > >   >         amd64-*-*|x86_64-*-*)   machine=amdx86-64 ;;
  > >   > --- 442,450 ----
  > >   >     ;;
  > >   >   >     *-sun-solaris* \
  > >   > !     | i[3456]86-*-solaris2* | i[3456]86-*-sunos5* \
  > >   > !     | x86_64-*-solaris2*    | x86_64-*-sunos5*    \
  > >   > !     | powerpc*-*-solaris2*  | rs6000-*-solaris2*)
  > >
  > > This hunk should not be necessary, *-sun-solaris* should match anyway.
  > > Please verify that things still work.
  > 
  > Dan,
  > 
  >    src/s/sol2-10.h is fine. There are some issues with the changes to
  > configure though.
  > 
  > The hunk you removed really is needed, at least the 'x86_64-*-solaris2*' part.
  > I put the 'x86_64-*-sunos5*' one in because it mirror how the 32-bit one
  > above is defined, but the 'x86_64-*-solaris2*' is needed to get a build.
  > 
  > The reason '*-sun-solaris*' isn't sufficient is that on X86
  > hardware, the "vendor" is not "sun":
  > 
  >     % ./config.guess
  >     i386-pc-solaris2.11
  >     % CC='gcc -m64' ./config.guess
  >     amd64-solaris2.11
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This does not look right, it needs to be a triplet, not a pair, so amd64-pc-solaris2.11
But I'll wait until your config.guess changes are checked in.
It's actually quite surprising that config.guess did not support for
amd64/x86_64 on Solaris...

  > There is a typo (missing ;; in a case statement), and the clause
  > for Solaris 7-9 fails because a bit got missed. 

Thanks.  Fixed. 

  > I'm going to show the part of the file I modified here, and mark the
  > modified lines with a '>' in column 1.

BTW, context or unified diffs are preferred here.