> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) wrote: > > I've been getting utterly stunned pretty regularly throughout. The only > > system I've found so far, other than embedded systems (hi, busybox!), which > > doesn't have printf(1) either in the shell or in the default $PATH, is SunOS > > 4 -- which I'm willing to mention once and then ignore at this point.
However, even Solaris 10 /usr/bin/printf has bugs causing it to dump core with some arguments (which was a real pain for libtool). Again quoting autoconf.info: | Large outputs may cause trouble. On Solaris 2.5.1 through 10, for | example, `/usr/bin/printf' is buggy, so when using `/bin/sh' the | command `printf %010000x 123' normally dumps core. Cheers, Ralf
