On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:41 PM Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > >> On 12/01/21 15:14 +0000, CHIGOT, CLEMENT wrote: > >>>Hi everyone, > >>> > >>>I've reworked the patch to merged dragonfly and AIX > >>>models into the new one named "ieee_1003.1-2008". > >>>It seems okay on the AIX part but if someone can test > >>>on Dragonfly and Freebsd I would be glad. Configure > >>>needs to be regenerated, first. > >> > >> Presumably it could also be tested on GNU/Linux and Solaris, since > >> they implement the POSIX 2008 APIs needed. > > > > I'll give the patch a whirl on Solaris. However, we will need to > > distinguish between 11.3 (which is XPG6 only) and 11.4 (which support > > XPG7). > > as almost expected, a build on Solaris 11.4 failed miserably due to the > use of the various BSD extensions (localeconv_l, mbstowcs_l, strtod_l, > strtof_l, strtold_l, wcsftime_l), whose use or fallback implementations > are currently guarded by _AIX. Should those be used in a directory > supposed to conform to POSIX.1-2008 at all? OTOH, almost duplicating > the code into a separate bsd (or whatever, it's certainly not only > DragonflyBSD) directory for this sole reason would be a shame.
Hi, Rainer Thanks for testing. I agree that #ifdef's are not the correct approach, but, if you enable the fallbacks for Solaris, does everything then work? Are those fallbacks portable and we solely need a better mechanism to enable them on platforms that require them? Thanks, David
