From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Manual pages for glibc. Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:02:37 -0400 Message-ID: <87o9rkmrde.fsf@netris.org> References: <877eydw2g6.fsf@gnu.org> <878titng5m.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgdZ2-0001s1-0q for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:03:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgdYy-0004MX-Q4 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:03:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878titng5m.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:18:13 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus 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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s 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