Re: gettext: "make check" fails on NetBSD/sparc-1.5

[Bruno Haible]

Adrian Bunk writes:

> gettext-0.11 compiles fine under NetBSD/sparc-1.5 but the following three
> tests fail in "make check":
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> 3c3
> < EUR remplace FF.
> ---
> >  $s remplace $s.

It means NetBSD's fprintf function is not POSIX compliant. In order to
be POSIX compliant, it should support the syntax "%5$s" that prints
the fifth argument as a string.

I won't work around this in gettext. Go fix NetBSD's libc.

Bruno