glibc on Mac

glibc on Mac

[Julius Hamilton]

Hey,

I would like to read C man pages in the terminal on Mac.

Is there any way to install glibc or similar onto Mac?

Thank you,
Julius

Re: glibc on Mac

[Cristian Rodríguez]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 8:36 PM Julius Hamilton via Libc-alpha
<libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I would like to read C man pages in the terminal on Mac.
>
> Is there any way to install glibc or similar onto Mac?
>
> Thank you,
> Julius

I think you can install the man7.org pages

 https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html

That link also contains links about the posix man pages.

Cheers.

Re: glibc on Mac

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

Hi Cristian,

On 2/17/22 11:41, Cristian Rodríguez via Libc-alpha wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 8:36 PM Julius Hamilton via Libc-alpha
> <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I would like to read C man pages in the terminal on Mac.
>>
>> Is there any way to install glibc or similar onto Mac?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Julius
> 
> I think you can install the man7.org pages
> 
>   https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
> 
> That link also contains links about the posix man pages.

Mac already comes with its own manual pages.  If you are programming on 
a Mac, reading the Linux manual pages can be misleading.

Also, since Mac uses a case-insensitive file system by default, you'll 
find problems when downloading the Linux man-pages, since there are a 
few clashes:

man2/_Exit.2
man2/_exit.2
man3/NAN.3
man3/nan.3


Cheers,

Alex


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Alejandro Colomar
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