From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Malcolm Kay To: help-gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: Man pages for C commands Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 22:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: <384F8EC7.41C67EA6@adelaide.on.net> References: <3845C8C8.ED3F4992@Sun.COM> X-SW-Source: 1999-12n/msg00129.html Message-ID: <19991231222400.H05KF4UprZj4zcIsl9rKeU1CNl1OK62m_vjl4OzB5uU@z> Robert J. Sprawls wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 17:18:00 -0800, JAY LULLA wrote: > >Hi. How does one set up the station so that C commands are tied into the > >man pages? > > > >When downloading GNU gcc, is there a specific directory where the man > >info is located, and if you add this dir to the manpath, then one can do > >stuff like 'man malloc'? > > > >Is man info part of the gcc source but not the binary executable > >version? > > Installing the compiler should install the man pages. There is a > seperate NG for gcc related issues. You should ask there. > > Robert On UNIX and UNIX like systems the gcc installation often uses the libraries supplied with the operating system for standard C functions and many others. The man pages for these come with the operating system but installation with the operating system may be optional either in total or section by section. You probably need to look to your operating system installation if these are not already available. There may be the occassional system where the normal system supplied libraries are sufficiently strange in linkage etc. as to make the adaption of gcc to those libraries impracticable - I don't know what the GNU approach is in this circumstance. The gcc installation should however supply man pages for gcc specifics such as 'gcc' and 'cpp' but more detailed help on these is usually supplied with the installation using the GNU 'info' system. Malcolm