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Re: rename strftime module
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: rename strftime module |
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Wed, 3 May 2017 07:53:30 +0200 |
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On 05/03/2017 12:30 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> What exactly do you mean by "fell into ..."?
>
> I mean that the bootstrap.conf requests the module 'strftime', whose benefit
> is that it supports GNU extensions in the format string, but it does not get
> used.
>
> 'nstrftime' is meant to lift this limitation [1]:
> "Some of these formats might not be available on all systems, due to
> differences in the C strftime function between systems."
...
> As you can see, it uses 'strftime' from glibc. It does not use 'nstrftime'.
Okay, thanks for clarifying that this is still an issue in find(1).
I understood the "fell into" that this was already fixed somewhere
in the past but obviously it wasn't.
Just out of curiosity: how did you find out?
Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny