Developer documentation

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed May 4 18:46:46 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:36:25PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On wo, 2005-05-04 at 16:37 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote:
> > where do I find the manuals for the library functions on Ubuntu. Due to
> > the Description glibc-doc does contain only the info and html form
> > (looking for ``man 3 printf'' for instance).
> 
> manpages-dev
> If you are compiling things, it is useful to install the build-essential
> emtapackage which depends on this package among others.

build-essential doesn't depend on manpages-dev (it certainly shouldn't,
at least) ...

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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