Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

> address@hidden (Peter Seebach) wrote:
> > I've been getting utterly stunned pretty regularly throughout.  The only
> > system I've found so far, other than embedded systems (hi, busybox!), which
> > doesn't have printf(1) either in the shell or in the default $PATH, is SunOS
> > 4 -- which I'm willing to mention once and then ignore at this point.

However, even Solaris 10 /usr/bin/printf has bugs causing it to dump
core with some arguments (which was a real pain for libtool).  Again
quoting autoconf.info:

|  Large outputs may cause trouble.  On Solaris 2.5.1 through 10, for
|  example, `/usr/bin/printf' is buggy, so when using `/bin/sh' the
|  command `printf %010000x 123' normally dumps core.

Cheers,
Ralf