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Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on AIX 7
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on AIX 7 |
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Fri, 28 Dec 2018 07:38:54 +0100 |
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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.
0001-tests-colors-Avoid-test-failure-on-AIX-7.patch
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- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, (continued)
- Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on HP-UX, Jim Meyering, 2018/12/28
- 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 <=