error.c and program name

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Dec 9 03:19:34 UTC 2005


On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:00:30PM -0500, John Kelly wrote:
> The uclibc error.c (in 0.9.28) apparently does not print the program
> name, and this messes up the coreutils tests which expect the program
> name to be in the output.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?

it's a feature

uClibc does not support program_invocation_name or
program_invocation_short_name which gnulib utilizes for error printing

> If it's a feature, it's annoying.

well i guess you're just going to have to get over it
-mike



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