On 11/23/2011 10:11 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:00:34PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: >> I wonder if a better way to handle this is to require the %s expansion >> at configure time and use the strftime replacement in lib/sh if the C >> library's strftime doesn't implement it. What systems, if you know, do >> not handle %s? > > HP-UX 10.20 and 11.11 are the ones I have. It's a somewhat commonly > requested feature among Solaris users too, but I don't know which > versions of Solaris they are using. There are probably many others. > At a guess, I would assume everything that isn't GNU/Linux or BSD.
Gnulib already provides a strftime replacement that guarantees %s, which is handy since the next version of POSIX is considering requiring %s in strftime(). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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