Re: Finding a easy way for prototype tipping

[Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
>> Date: 15 Dec 2006 05:07:53 -0800
>> >
>> > To make sure that info pages contain information on memset I found one with C-h i, in entry:
>> > * Libc: (libc).                 C library.
>> >
>> > That's it
>> >
>> >  -- Function: void * memset (void *BLOCK, int C, size_t SIZE)
>> >      This function copies the value of C (converted to an `unsigned
>> >      char') into each of the first SIZE bytes of the object beginning
>> >      at BLOCK.  It returns the value of BLOCK.
>> >
>> [...]
>> Regarding Info-lookup, it could be something that's not supported on
>> your system.  It's a GNU Libc feature.
>
> ??? But Pawel explicitly shows (above) that he does have the GNU Libc
> manual installed on his system.  What other dependency on GNU Libc
> could possibly defeat this feature on his system?

In Ubuntu there are two installs : man or info. Both cant be there for
some reason due a discrepancy in install locations. I had to uninstall
the glibc man pages before I could install the info ones.