Hi Paul,
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Paul Eggert wrote:
Martin Koeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ok, download is possible now. But seq is still wrong for me. Either
include the gnulib printf-posix module, or change seq to use
asprintf() instead of printf() to fix. See the previous mails on that
by Bruno and me.
Can you please clarify? What I see from previous emails is this:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00121.html
This refers to some private correspondence, but it's not exactly clear
to me what the bug is, or why adding printf-posix will fix it.
Ordinarily we'd rather use printf than using aprintf and then sending
the result to stdout; that way we don't need to worry about
memory-allocation issues.
seq uses long double output, which doesn't work on some platforms. So
it's necessary to use a replacement *printf() on these. The relevant
functions are asprintf() and printf(). As seq uses asprintf() anyway,
one could replace printf() with asprintf() and have only asprintf() to
replace on these long double failing systems, but I see the malloc()
disadvantage.
This has been discussed here, and as a result of the discussion the
vasprintf-posix module has been added, which was insufficient however:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00033.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00068.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00082.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00083.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00084.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00121.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00122.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00123.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00124.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00121.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00122.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00123.html
Unfortunately, the thread had several topics, as they all came up when
I tried to build coreutils on Interix. In the listing above, I only
mentioned the mails relevant to seq, however.
Martin
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