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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: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:10:45 +0000

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On 26/11/14 20:37, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

I did that in the attached.

thanks,
Pádraig

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

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