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coreutils-8.23 Compile Error on Solaris 8 - Sun Studio 11

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 19184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, edward.w.carr <at> gsk.com
Subject: Re: bug#19184: coreutils-8.23 Compile Error on Solaris 8 - Sun Studio
 11
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:37:16 +0000

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On 26/11/14 19:21, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 06:19 AM, Ted Carr wrote:
>> I get some errors when running 'make check'.  You have any time to help with those or should I just send in another email?
> Can't hurt to email them to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org.  Can't promise anything: Solaris 8 isn't supported any more by Oracle, so it's mostly off our radar.  Anyway, I'm marking this bug as done.

Ted emailed me privately by mistake.

There 2 issues. The first was a weird one with the shell's printf
which the attached patch will hopefully avoid.

The other issue is incorrect prompts output by rm due to its use of %zu
Ted could you give the output of:

  grep gl_cv_func_printf_sizes_c99 config.log

Now coreutils doesn't make use of the fprintf-posix module
to act on the above test.
Jim attempted it for a day in 2007 but reverted due to "too many test failures".
We could easily avoid the use of %zu I suppose in coreutils,
as there are only a few uses really.

thanks,
Pádraig.

[solaris-8-printf.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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