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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Adrian Bunk <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:18:01 +0100 (CET)
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> For me as a normal user this sounds like a:
> 
>   Never use GNU gettext on NetBSD.

Indeed.

Bruno, when did that requirement enter Posix?  Is that an official
Posix standard or just a draft?

If it's a draft, or a standard approved only recently, perhaps
support for it should not be such an absolute requirement?  How about
if gettext will come with a version of printf from glibc, for those
systems which don't support %5$s?  Many packages do similar things
for other functions, like mktime, for example.