Re: printf failure on darwin with coreutils-6.9.91

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:06:11PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to build coreutils-6.9.91 for Mac OS/X (Darwin 10.3)
>> > and getting test failures from misc/printf.   The output of make check
>> > is attached below.   I believe the problem occurs around line 345 of
>> > src/printf.c which has:
>> >
>> > 342      switch (conversion)
>> > 343        {
>> > 344        case 'd': case 'i': case 'o': case 'u': case 'x': case 'X':
>> > 345          length_modifier = PRIdMAX;
>> > 346          length_modifier_len = sizeof PRIdMAX - 2;
>> > 347          break;
>> >
>> > On linux PRIdMAX is defined as "lld" but on darwin it is defined as "qd".
>> > Later on in the block of code around line 331 in lib/parse-printf.c, the
>> > 'q' case is not handled.
>
> I've attached lib/config.h as requested.

Hi Peter,

This line in config.h,

/* #undef HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE */

shows that the configure-time test for long double support
failed.  Can you look in config.log (or send it) to see why?