[libvirt] [RFC PATCH] build: avoid %zu in translated strings

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:41:16AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/18/2010 03:04 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > I find the PRI* stuff rather fugly. Can't we just use %llu and
> > cast to (unsigned long long)
> 
> Unfortunately, %llu is equally non-portable to mingw.  And yes, we also
> have some %llu encoded into translated strings, which would also need help.
> 
> > 
> > The question of printf-posix license doesn't appear relevant since
> > remoteError & friends all use asprintf() which is LGPLv2+ already.
> 
> We use the 'vasprintf' module, which is indeed LGPLv2+, but it does not
> guarantee the existence of %llu nor %zu -- it only guarantees that you
> have the [v]asprintf wrappers around your current system's
> (non-)compliant printf family, so it inherits the same bugs regarding
> unsupported specifiers.  We would have to use the vasprintf-posix module
> to get %zu, but that module is LGPLv3+.

Hmm, that's odd, because support for %llu in printf was one of the
primary reasons we started using GNULIB in the first place. We have
been relying on %llu working, throughout the code.

Daniel
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