Re: gettext: "make check" fails on NetBSD/sparc-1.5

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:12:17PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote on 2002-02-07:
> 
> > gettext-0.11 compiles fine under NetBSD/sparc-1.5 but the following three
> > tests fail in "make check":
> >
> > <--  snip  -->
> >
> > 3c3
> > < EUR remplace FF.
> > ---
> >
> > >  $s remplace $s.
> 
> It means NetBSD's fprintf function is not POSIX/XSI compliant. In order to
> be POSIX/XSI compliant, it should support the syntax "%5$s" that prints
> the fifth argument as a string.
> 
> This affects only NetBSD and Woe32. To workaround this problem,
> gettext-0.12.2 will contain a replacement for the printf(), fprintf(),
> sprintf() etc. functions that support the "%5$s" syntax.

I'm still getting the following errors in 1.13.1:

<--  snip  -->

...
3c3
< EUR remplace FF.
---
>  $s remplace $s.
FAIL: lang-c
...
3c3
< EUR remplace FF.
---
>  $s remplace $s.
FAIL: lang-objc
...

<--   snip  -->

> Bruno

cu
Adrian

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