Set the baseline Solaris version to 11.4

[tgross35]

Proposal

Currently there is no documented minimum Solaris version. @psumbera (who has been the de facto target maintainer for a long time) put up a PR that documents the minimum version as 11.4, which was released 2018-08 rust-lang/rust#133293: rust-lang/rust#133293.

This means we will no longer support versions 10 (released 2005-01) or 11.3 (released 2015-10), both of which are still supported until January 2027, so this MCP's goal is mostly to give an objection period in case anyone relies on this. The change seems reasonable, especially considering it doesn't seem like we know that builds for older versions are working today.

Some background discussion at https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/131828-t-compiler/topic/Solaris.20baseline

Mentors or Reviewers

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[jieyouxu]

@rustbot second

[tgross35]

@rustbot label -final-comment-period +major-change-accepted