Re: [tcpdump] About HAVE_NO_PRINTF_Z

[Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:30:50 +0000
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> On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 16:57:45 +0000
> Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
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> > So it would be practicable to restore Solaris 9 support in the
> > trailing edge department of tcpdump using compile-time-conditional
> > length modifier.  If anybody volunteers to implement that, it would
> > be wrong to get in the way, I guess.
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> Alright, there are no volunteers at this time.
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> > >     > Whatever is the eventual solution, in any case from today's
> > >     > perspective it makes sense to stop masking these test
> > >     > failures. 
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> > > Agreed.
> > > Do you mean: Maybe just let the tests fail on Solaris, and document
> > > that this happens?  
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> > As the first step in any case, yes.  And make the build fail early if
> > the required length modifier is not supported.
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> The changes to detect printf() issues (which now correctly fails the
> build on Solaris 9 instead of masking the post-build test failures) are
> now tcpdump draft pull request #1031.  Please treat this as a request
> for comments and if something does not look right, make your comments
> either there or on the mailing list.
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> Given no objections, this will be merged in a few weeks.
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>     Denis Ovsienko
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