Bug#526600: manpages-dev: nftw manual page says to define _XOPEN_SOURCE but ftw.h uses __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.05-1 Severity: normal The nftw manual page says to define _XOPEN_SOURCE but ftw.h from glibc 2.7 in lenny and glibc 2.9 in sid uses __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED. This leads to code that uses nftw failing to build. No idea which one is correct according to the standards, but the manual page should not give advice that does not work. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: ii manpages 3.05-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 KDE's advanced file manager, web b ii man-db [man-browser]2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#526600: manpages-dev: nftw manual page says to define _XOPEN_SOURCE but ftw.h uses __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED
Hello Paul, On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.05-1 Severity: normal The nftw manual page says to define _XOPEN_SOURCE More precisely, it says: #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500 but ftw.h from glibc 2.7 in lenny and glibc 2.9 in sid uses __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED. This leads to code that uses nftw failing to build. Not sure whay that should happen, but so far I don't think it's a man page problem. No idea which one is correct according to the standards, but the manual page should not give advice that does not work. As far as I can see, the ftw(3) man page is correct. Have a read of feature_test_macros(7) and features.h. If after that you still think there's a problem, drop a note into this bug. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
