From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Manual pages for glibc. Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:09:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87lgmoh4rd.fsf@elephly.net> References: <877eydw2g6.fsf@gnu.org> <878titng5m.fsf@elephly.net> <87o9rkmrde.fsf@netris.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]:51153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgdff-0003Cl-Ov for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:10:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgdfe-0007LW-QI for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:10:11 -0400 In-reply-to: <87o9rkmrde.fsf@netris.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: Mark H Weaver Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" Mark H Weaver writes: > 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’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? It’s not a solution in response to wanting to access libc; I did this because I wanted to have access to all info manuals, regardless of whether I have the packages in my profile or not. I just like browsing them. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net