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Re: declaration of strptime



On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:06:44PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> First -- what should be done in the base system about the declaration
> of strptime?  Should it always be declared?  If not, should the man
> page be fixed?  (I should probably send-pr this point.)

Nothing. The man page is explicit about what standards it belongs it and
the header reflects that.

> Second -- what should be in the packages (www/liferea and
> mail/claws-mail-rssyl) to cope with this?

Check for which feature macros they set. They might be doing something
stupid and request strict C90 compliance or so.

Joerg



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