And Junio C. Hamano writes: > > In a distant past when I built git on an otherwise unused Sol8 > at work I recall I needed that. I do not think that machine > used Forte compiler, though. I didn't even know you could patch 5.8 enough to use that compiler version. I can't imagine what strange combinations of C89 and C99 features are available. Luckily for me, I no longer have easy access to Solaris <9. At some point, the crazy patch combinations need relegated to each particular site's config.mak. Solaris 8 has entered the first "retirement phase", but new orders can include it for about another month: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/support/sol8.xml Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
