From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Manual pages for glibc. Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:18:13 +0200 Message-ID: <878titng5m.fsf@elephly.net> References: <877eydw2g6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfP0N-0002nz-GU for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:18:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfP0M-0005aq-AQ for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:18:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <877eydw2g6.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Roel Janssen Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" Hi Roel, > Which package do I need to install to be able to read the man pages of > functions in glibc like 'snprintf' and 'malloc'? > > I installed glibc, but that does not seem to provide the man pages. Here’s what I did: unionfs $(printf "%s:" /gnu/store/*/share/info) ~/tmp/info This gives me a union of all the beautiful info manuals in the store. To read the GNU libc’s info manual I do this in Emacs: C-u C-h i ~/tmp/info/libc.info.gz RET It opens up the manual and I can search for snprintf in the index with “i snprintf RET”. Not sure about the man pages, though. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net