bootstrap check_exists() causes misleading diagnostics on OpenBSD

2014-10-18 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, this is maybe not a full-grown bug, more like a quirk, but is is sure bound to cause confusion, so i'd like to hear what you think... I'm the maintainer of the OpenBSD port of groff (GNU troff), and Bertrand (see Cc:) is currently migrating the groff build system to automake and gnulib. He

Re: bootstrap check_exists() causes misleading diagnostics on OpenBSD

2014-10-23 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Pádraig, thank you for looking into this quirk. Your patch looks reasonable and works for me. For one minor suggestion, see below. Pádraig Brady wrote on Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 02:06:13PM +0100: On 10/18/2014 05:58 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: On OpenBSD, the usual way to install the autotools

Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-20 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 09:55:25PM +0100: > I have now submitted a request to add such a method to POSIX. Here: > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1220 Yes, i had seen that request. > I used OpenBSD 6.2 as an example in there, not to bash OpenBSD, Nothing is

Re: localename: Fix test failure on OpenBSD >= 6.2

2018-12-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 07:12:44AM +0100: > While testing a grep snapshot on OpenBSD 6.3, I see a test failure of > test-localename. The cause is that in OpenBSD >= 6.2, the locale_t > type and uselocale() etc. are now available, but with a terribly dumbed- > down

Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 08:01:04PM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> The OpenBSD C library intentionally doesn't implement any other >> locale(1) categories except LC_CTYPE because many here regard the >> other categories as overengineeri

swarm of bugs in gnulib wrt restrict

2020-10-24 Thread Ingo Schwarze
ill wrongly consider the native printf(3) broken and replace it with its own, less secure version. I got a report from a user who had that happen to him even on an up-to-date Gentoo Linux system. -- Ingo Schwarze http://www.openbsd.org/ http://mandoc.bsd.lv/