by Sean » Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:42:06
Say the gcc I built is in $HOME/mygcc/bin, and the associated man page
is in $HOME/mygcc/man/man1/gcc.1, how can I read it with proper format?
less/cat/vi does not work because the special characters are not
displayed properly.
Thanks,
Sean
by Jordan Abe » Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:48:22
add $HOME/mygcc/man to your MANPATH, then type man gcc.Quote:> I installed a gcc version on my Linux box, while keeping the default
> gcc in /usr/bin.
> Say the gcc I built is in $HOME/mygcc/bin, and the associated man page
> is in $HOME/mygcc/man/man1/gcc.1, how can I read it with proper format?
> less/cat/vi does not work because the special characters are not
> displayed properly.
to get the manpage to the default gcc, remove it from MANPATH.
by Harry3 » Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:07:42
nroff -ms gcc.1 | col -b > gcc_manpage.txtQuote:Sean wrote...
>I installed a gcc version on my Linux box, while keeping the default
>gcc in /usr/bin.
>Say the gcc I built is in $HOME/mygcc/bin, and the associated man page
>is in $HOME/mygcc/man/man1/gcc.1, how can I read it with proper format?
>less/cat/vi does not work because the special characters are not
>displayed properly.
by Chris F.A. Johnso » Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:06:55
> Say the gcc I built is in $HOME/mygcc/bin, and the associated man page
> is in $HOME/mygcc/man/man1/gcc.1, how can I read it with proper format?
> less/cat/vi does not work because the special characters are not
> displayed properly.
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by PM » Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:39:08
> Say the gcc I built is in $HOME/mygcc/bin, and the associated man page
> is in $HOME/mygcc/man/man1/gcc.1, how can I read it with proper format?
> less/cat/vi does not work because the special characters are not
> displayed properly.
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