I tried to get this upstreamed in https://dev.gnupg.org/T5104 to no avail. If people find it useful to not see %n related complaints during the build, the patch below would do it. If desirable, OK?
Thanks Greg
>From 8afc030e5e22cdcde94437a8b2056ab4c6f16061 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Steuck <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:49:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH GnuPG] Avoid printf-%n in mkdefs.c Replace with an easy computation. --- doc/mkdefsinc.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/mkdefsinc.c b/doc/mkdefsinc.c index b8fbed6e9..c8ff90fda 100644 --- a/doc/mkdefsinc.c +++ b/doc/mkdefsinc.c @@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) else { const char *month = "?"; + const day_of_month = atoi (opt_date+8); switch (atoi (opt_date+5)) { @@ -286,10 +287,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) } n = strlen (opt_date) + strlen (month) + 2 + 1; p = xmalloc (n); - snprintf (p, n, "%d %n%s %d", - atoi (opt_date+8), &monthoff, month, atoi (opt_date)); + snprintf (p, n, "%d %s %d", day_of_month, month, atoi (opt_date)); xfree (opt_date); opt_date = p; + monthoff = 1 + ((day_of_month > 9) ? 2 : 1); /* good enough log base 10 */ } -- 2.28.0
