[parisc-linux] Building packages, problems with printf

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:03:34AM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> That's cheating!  The real fix is to turn
> 
> printf (foo_string,
> #if SOMETHING
> abc_param
> #else
> xyz_param
> #endif
> );
> 
> into
> 
> #if SOMETHING
> printf (foo_string, abc_param);
> #else
> printf (foo_string, xyz_param);
> #endif
> 
> Earn brownie points sending off proper fixes to package maintainers. :)

Ah, but that doesn't cure netkit-telnet which is c++ and has a method called
printf which gets royally bollixed by this define.

Agreed that's a better solution though for the cases where it applies.

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