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Re: rename strftime module


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: Re: rename strftime module
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 07:53:30 +0200
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On 05/03/2017 12:30 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> What exactly do you mean by "fell into ..."?
> 
> I mean that the bootstrap.conf requests the module 'strftime', whose benefit
> is that it supports GNU extensions in the format string, but it does not get 
> used.
> 
> 'nstrftime' is meant to lift this limitation [1]:
>   "Some of these formats might not be available on all systems, due to
>    differences in the C strftime function between systems."

...

> As you can see, it uses 'strftime' from glibc. It does not use 'nstrftime'.

Okay, thanks for clarifying that this is still an issue in find(1).
I understood the "fell into" that this was already fixed somewhere
in the past but obviously it wasn't.
Just out of curiosity: how did you find out?

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny



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