Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba on AIX 7

[Bruno Haible]

On AIX 7.1/PowerPC:

FAIL: colors
========================= colors.log ====================
printf: bad conversion
printf: bad conversion
FAIL colors (exit status: 1)
=========================================================

Indeed, /bin/sh does not have 'printf' built-in, and /usr/bin/printf
produces:
$ /usr/bin/printf '%*s-a' 10
printf: 3016-004 Cannot form a valid conversion.
s-a$

But this works:
$ /usr/bin/printf '%10s-a'
          -a$

The fix is thus to splice the count into the printf format string, like you did
in the 'grep' tests. Patch is attached; it fixes the test failure.

0001-tests-colors-Avoid-test-failure-on-AIX-7.patch
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