Re: installer misidentifies illumos OS

On 3/9/26 16:17, Karl Berry wrote:
> Thanks. So that should provide enough information to distinguish.  But
> really it would be best to make the change in config.guess.  Do you have
> any idea of whether there would be problems with other software if
> config.guess started returning -*illumos2.11 and *omnios2.11?
>
> It would be good to bring it up on [email protected]. It's
> surprising to me that no one has brought up the problem before. It makes
> me think that mostly it works to pretend illumos is solaris-2.11.

I am very far from an expert here, but my understanding is that you are 
right and it still mostly does work to treat one as the other--providing 
you are compiling things from scratch (which config.guess is mostly used 
for in other places, right?).

> Or maybe we should drop all Solaris binaries -- I wonder if anyone is
> even using current TL on Oracle Solaris.
>
> Do you (or anyone) have any sense of how many people might be using
> native TL on Oracle Solaris vs. potential users on illumos?

I don't know, I'm afraid. But as I think I mentioned in another message, 
OmniOS does provide a TL installation, so presumably there's *some* use.