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Re: gettext: "make check" fails on NetBSD/sparc-1.5
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: gettext: "make check" fails on NetBSD/sparc-1.5 |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:51:24 +0200 |
> From: Adrian Bunk <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:18:01 +0100 (CET)
>
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> > It means NetBSD's fprintf function is not POSIX compliant. In order to
> > be POSIX compliant, it should support the syntax "%5$s" that prints
> > the fifth argument as a string.
> >
> > I won't work around this in gettext. Go fix NetBSD's libc.
>
> For me as a normal user this sounds like a:
>
> Never use GNU gettext on NetBSD.
Indeed.
Bruno, when did that requirement enter Posix? Is that an official
Posix standard or just a draft?
If it's a draft, or a standard approved only recently, perhaps
support for it should not be such an absolute requirement? How about
if gettext will come with a version of printf from glibc, for those
systems which don't support %5$s? Many packages do similar things
for other functions, like mktime, for example.