Ricardo Wurmus writes: > 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.
Right. Thanks for this solution. On GuixSD, the info pages for libc are automatically available in Emacs, so I can look up the functions there. It would still be nice to have the man-pages as well, because they are a little more descriptive some times. Kind regards, Roel Janssen
