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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Manual pages for glibc.
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:18:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878titng5m.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eydw2g6.fsf@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

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-09 11:18 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 [this message]
2017-08-09 11:49   ` Roel Janssen
2017-08-12 21:02   ` Mark H Weaver
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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