Re: Android port

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  angelo.g0@libero.it,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:07:11 +0200
> 
> Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> > And also %n (used in the rest of Emacs), which aborts on Android for
> >> > ``security'' reasons...
> >> 
> >> Most of those are not relevant for Android, right?
> >> 
> >> The only one which is relevant (in emacs.c) can be rewritten not to
> >> use %n.
> >
> > Then I would suggest to rewrite this instance without %n.
> 
> There is a patch for this already in the OpenBSD ports tree:
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/editors/emacs/patches/patch-src_emacs_c?rev=1.5&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Thanks, but unless they contribute the code to us, pointing to that
code here is actually discouraged: it makes harder for people to write
an independent implementation that cannot be possibly taken as a copy
of theirs.

Rewriting this without %n is basically trivial.