[FFmpeg-cvslog] r10233 - trunk/configure

[Måns Rullgård]

"Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 8/27/07, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
>> M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> writes:
>>
>> > "Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >>> > What can I do to help you?
>> >>>
>> >>> By shooting whoever decided that macosx has to be subtly different in
>> >>> nasty ways.
>> >>
>> >> What I can do is file a bug report to Apple, if you are sure that the
>> >> correct way to implement this test is with "strings -a". If ever the
>> >> bug gets fixed, it still won't help support for older version of OSX
>> >> with a non-POSIX "strings".
>> >
>> > Could you send me the object file this test creates?  That might be
>> > helpful.
>
> I sure can do this. I just need to remember to do it next time I have
> access to that machine.
>
>> One more thing.  Is there an online version of the man pages for
>> macosx?  If not, could you also send me the man page for strings?
>
> Here it is:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/strings.1.html
>
> As you can see, "-a" and "-" aren't the same.

For the record, that -a is not POSIX compliant.  What a shame.  GNU
strings is also not POSIX compliant in that it considers a string
any sequence of printable characters, whereas POSIX specifies a string
as a sequence of printable characters followed by null or newline.  In
this respect the macosx version is compliant.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com