On 15/04/15 21:23, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Hello there, > > when 'gnulib-tool' is listing modules in bold type, > it does so in a non-portable way. FreeBSD displays > this failure, since its printf(1) is not accepting > hexadecimally encoded characters. In fact, the POSIX > manual page printf(1p) mentions octal encoding as > the only valid mechanism. Patch follows.
This might be more portable again: bold_on=`tput bold 2>/dev/null || tput md 2>/dev/null | printf '\033[1m'` Thought may be overkill. I've applied your patch as is. thanks! Pádraig.
