On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:00:34PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > I wonder if a better way to handle this is to require the %s expansion > at configure time and use the strftime replacement in lib/sh if the C > library's strftime doesn't implement it. What systems, if you know, do > not handle %s?
HP-UX 10.20 and 11.11 are the ones I have. It's a somewhat commonly requested feature among Solaris users too, but I don't know which versions of Solaris they are using. There are probably many others. At a guess, I would assume everything that isn't GNU/Linux or BSD.