man gcc?

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rplantz · #1 Post by **rplantz** » 2006-12-07 05:59

I installed gcc-4.1, gcc-4.0-doc, binutils-doc, and build-essential. I still don't have a man page for gcc. I've got it for as and ld.

What package am I missing? (I feel stupid asking this question.

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ajdlinux · #2 Post by **ajdlinux** » 2006-12-07 06:31

The gcc man pages are weird - you have to use man gcc-4.0 to see it, man gcc on my system redirects to g++.

rplantz · #3 Post by **rplantz** » 2006-12-07 17:29

ajdlinux wrote:The gcc man pages are weird - you have to use man gcc-4.0 to see it, man gcc on my system redirects to g++.

You led me in the right direction. I had installed 4.1.2 of both gcc and g++. My system did not behave quite like yours, but your remarks caused me to also install 4.0 of both gcc and g++. Now I can do man gcc-4.0 or man g++-4.0 and get man pages.

The --version shows that my default is still 4.1.2; I have to explicitly state 4.0 (e.g., g++-4.0) to use the 4.0 version.

I will assume for now that the 4.0 man pages are at least very close to the 4.1 versions.

Thank you.