From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Manual pages for glibc.
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:02:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9rkmrde.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878titng5m.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:18:13 +0200")
Hi Ricardo,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>> 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
This awkward solution should not be needed. I simply installed
'gcc-toolchain' in my user profile and access the info manuals in Emacs
using C-h i. Does that not work for you?
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-12 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-09 8:49 Manual pages for glibc Roel Janssen
2017-08-09 11:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-09 11:49 ` Roel Janssen
2017-08-12 21:02 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2017-08-12 21:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-09 19:43 ` Alex Kost
2017-08-09 20:23 ` Roel Janssen
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