[MPlayer-cvslog] r27240 - trunk/configure

[The Wanderer]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:39:49AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 >
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:48:56AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

>>> It is in mine here as well
>>> " This  page  is  part  of  release  3.00 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/."
>>> and
>>> "This  page  is  part  of  release  2.79 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/."
>>> 
>>> I dont have any computer here with an older version
>>> 
>>> The online version at
>>> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/vsscanf.3.html
>>> which is 3.03 also contains the *_SOURCE defines
>>> 
>>> Which ancient version do you have?
>> 
>> I have 2.39 on my Debian stable box and 3.02 on my unstable box.
>> The latter does indeed mention more things. However, I mostly work
>> on the former...
> 
> Ahh debian stable ...
> no that predates C99
> 
> Let me quote it for you:
> LINUX MANPAGE                                                                1995-11-01
> 
> 1995 < 1999

Er... huh?

Debian stable is currently the same as Debian etch, which was released
just last year. Debian sarge is now oldstable, and I think even that may
be newer than '95.

I'm a little confused as to what the situation is here.

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