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Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on AIX 7
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on AIX 7 |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 23:37:51 -0800 |
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:39 PM Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> On AIX 7.1/PowerPC:
>
> FAIL: colors
> ========================= colors.log ====================
> printf: bad conversion
> printf: bad conversion
> FAIL colors (exit status: 1)
> =========================================================
>
> Indeed, /bin/sh does not have 'printf' built-in, and /usr/bin/printf
> produces:
> $ /usr/bin/printf '%*s-a' 10
> printf: 3016-004 Cannot form a valid conversion.
> s-a$
>
> But this works:
> $ /usr/bin/printf '%10s-a'
> -a$
>
> The fix is thus to splice the count into the printf format string, like you
> did
> in the 'grep' tests. Patch is attached; it fixes the test failure.
Thank you. I've just pushed that.
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, (continued)
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Bruno Haible, 2018/12/29
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Jim Meyering, 2018/12/29
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Bruno Haible, 2018/12/29
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Jim Meyering, 2018/12/30
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Bruno Haible, 2018/12/30
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Jim Meyering, 2018/12/30
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Jim Meyering, 2018/12/30
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Bruno Haible, 2018/12/31
Re: [Diffutils-devel] [platform-testers] new snapshot available: diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba, Bruno Haible, 2018/12/28
Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on AIX 7, Bruno Haible, 2018/12/28
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on AIX 7,
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