[MPlayer-cvslog] r27240 - trunk/configure

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:14:59PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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.

The vsscanf manpage from debian stable (etch) is from 1995. Confusing it may
be, i cannot explain why it is so either.

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