[m-rev.] diff: disable string_format_o on taifun

[Peter Ross]

fjh wrote:
> On 22-Nov-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > Estimated hours taken: 0.5
> > Branches: main
> >
> > tests/general/string_format/Mmakefile:
> >     Disable string_format_o on taifun as the C library sprintf is buggy.
> ...
> > +ifneq "$(findstring taifun,$(HOST))" ""
>
> Pete, you seem to very often attack the symptom, not the cause.
>
> The symptom is that the test case is failing on taifun.
> The cause is a bug in the Solaris 2.8 C library.
> The right fix is to disable this test case for Solaris 2.8
> (or maybe for all Solaris), not just for taifun.
>
I thought about that.  My reasoning is that a user of our test-suite would
rather see that there is a problem with printing floats using the type
specifier o, so we should only not test this case when testing on our
machines.  The best way to do this was to check for the host name that we
test on.


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