Re: Manual pages for glibc.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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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