Re: is the man page really 21 years old?

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

address@hidden wrote:

> Is the man page really
> GNU 22 August 1989 MAKE(1)
> 21 years old? Or even
> COPYRIGHT
>        Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>        This file is part of GNU make.
> 11 years old?

The manual page was last modified on 29 August 2010.  Important
moments in its history:

 - some time before 24 January 1990, when most of the current text was
   written

 - 13 December 2005, when a patch by Mike Frysinger was applied
   documenting some more options

The header line is somewhat arbitrary.  If you have a good idea for
what it should contain (in the form of nroff markup), I wouldn't be
surprised if it gets used.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan