[Scratchbox-users] Man pages inside Scratchbox ?

[Claudio Scordino]

You're right, there is not much to gain from it... it was just a suggestion.

Anyway, I think it would be somekind handful.

For instance, if some developer (lazy like me) doesn't remember the exact use of 
some syscall, he can look at the manual instead of opening a new terminal or 
exiting from Scratchbox.

Perhaps, the man may just invoke the man outside Scratchbox...

Regards,

            Claudio


Jussi Hakala wrote:
> Additionally, not all the software inside Scratchbox and the devkits are 
> built with the documentation. Some of them are, yes, but it's not 
> guaranteed a particular piece of software has the man pages.
> 
> As Kalle pointed out, there's not that much to gain from having man 
> pages inside Scratchbox. Only reason would be cross distribution 
> development, ie. developing for debian under rpm based distributions in 
> which case you might not have access to all the man pages for debian 
> tools...
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Jussi
> Kalle Vahlman wrote:
>> 2007/6/11, Claudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>    does anybody know how to enable the man pages inside Scratchbox ?
>>>
>>> Should I install some devkit (different than Debian), or should I do 
>>> something
>>> else ?
>>
>> I don't think there is a devkit for man. Usually one just uses the man
>> pages available *outside* scratchbox, but I guess one could install
>> man into the target if need be. Note however that it won't find the
>> devkit's or toolchain's man pages (surprisingly they seem to have
>> those...) unless the search paths are altered...
>>
>> With man pages available outside scratchbox and on the net, in my
>> opinion the trouble to get it working would outweigh the gain.
>>
> 
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