Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> I've applied the following to document this. > > Thanks. Documenting the bugs is good, even if we don't have a workaround > in gnulib yet. > >> +Windows ... > > "Windows" is ambiguous, not a platform name: we have two platforms there, > Cygwin and mingw. Can you please specify the platform names precisely?
It appears it is the Windows C runtime library that has the problem, see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/1184 I've pushed this patch, what do you think? /Simon diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi b/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi index 01532dc..1b8039e 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -Windows does not support the non-SUS %e specifier (and possibly the -other non-SUS specifiers too). +The Windows C runtime library (which is used by MinGW) does not +support the non-SUS %e specifier (and possibly the other non-SUS +specifiers too). @end itemize Extension: Gnulib offers a module @samp{strftime} that provides an
