Re: Manual pages for glibc.

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

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