Re: How should we override broken snprintf implementations?

[Paul Eggert]

"John McCabe-Dansted" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, the address@hidden team is wondering how to best handle the case
> where a broken native snprintf implementation (e.g. on mingw)
> prevents gnulib-tool from providing gnulib's C99 compatible snprintf.
> -- e.g.: 
> http://http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-dev/2007-02/msg00043.html
>
> Is there a recommended way of overcoming this problem?

I'd attack it by modifying gl_FUNC_SNPRINTF (in m4/snprintf.m4) so
that it detects the bug and replaces the broken snprintf with gnulib
version.