On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:04PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> It basically says "see your system's strftime() documentation".
> Admittedly it could be more helpful - if, say, it were to include the
> relevant sections of the strftime manpage verbatim - but doing that
> portably is Really Hard: consider that the manpage contains a lot of
> extra C-specific stuff that wouldn't be needed, and there's no fixed
> format for manpages from one platform to another.
>
> POSIX.pm is part of the perl core and maintained by the perl5-porters.
> I've found them to be very welcoming of documentation patches in the
> past.
Thinking about it a bit more, a good patch would be something along the
lines of ...
" You can assume that the following are available from C89:
=over
=item %foo
blahblah
=item %bar
blahblah
...
=back
Your system may support other formats, see strftime(3) for details "
For bonus points, check all the C89 formats at Configure time and build
the perldoc appropriately :-) Personally, I'd not do this. Configure
is full of fangs and tentacles.
--
David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information
Repent through spending
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