Re: coreutils-9.4.170-7b206 misc/numfmt test failure

[Pádraig Brady]

On 26/03/2024 18:54, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > The misc/numfmt test fails on
> > >     - Alpine Linux 3.18,
> > >     - macOS 12.5,
> > >     - FreeBSD 14.0,
> > >     - Solaris 11 OpenIndiana.
> > >
> > > Find attached the test-suite.log files.
> > >
> > > If these test failures are due to platform-specific *printf bugs, please
> > > provide a test case for *printf at the C level. Then I can add a workaround
> > > in Gnulib.
> >
> > The failures were due to an empty thousands grouping char
> > in the fr_FR.UTF-8 locale on those systems. Fixed with:
> > https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/c0f02a8f5
>
> The failures on Alpine Linux and macOS are gone.
> However, the test failures on FreeBSD 14.0 and Solaris 11 OpenIndiana are
> still present.

FreeBSD 14 at least looks to be counting bytes rather than chars
from the field width specs. The attached avoids this test portion
if there is a mismatch between printf(1) and the expected width.

cheers,
Pádraig

tests-numfmt-locale-widths.patch
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