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tomgg

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Registered: 2013-05-01

Posts: 40

C++ man pages

Using GCC 5.2.0, I have lost some C++ man pages; here's an example:

$ man std::stringstream
man: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/std::basic_stringstream.3: No such file or directory
No manual entry for std::stringstream

Does anyone know where they've gone?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: C++ man pages

/dev/null ?

FYI:

ewaller@turing ~ 1001 % man std::stringstream
man: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/std::basic_stringstream.3: No such file or directory
No manual entry for std::stringstream
ewaller@turing ~ [16]1002 %

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tomgg

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Registered: 2013-05-01

Posts: 40

Re: C++ man pages

/dev/null ?

FYI: [reproduced result]

That man page existed a year and a half ago, so I'm glad it isn't just me who's lost it. I threw a few queries at the Arch lists but didn't find anything relevant; so, what to do now? (hope that allan shows up again? :^))

Last edited by tomgg (2015-08-29 04:19:45)

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: C++ man pages

It seems to be a bug in gcc (it affects also other distributions, for example: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=783883). You should open a bug report upstream.

--edit: well, maybe it can be actually a packaging bug... pacman says

$ pacman -Qo "/usr/share/man/man3/std::stringstream.3.gz" 
/usr/share/man/man3/std::stringstream.3.gz is owned by gcc 5.2.0-2

however that file (and many other man pages) is not present if I rebuild gcc using ABS.

Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-08-29 08:05:53)

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