Re: Documentation for GCC

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, R.A.Fletcher wrote:

> Help! Its me again, and this time the problem is to do witht he
> documention for GNU C and C++ compilers.

By documentation you mean what? Command line switches? Cross compiler
information? UNIX API information? Syntax?

Most of the stuff you'll need should be in the man pages, including
functions etc. (try man printf). If you wish to view them under K, there
is a k man page reader, I guess it would probably called Kman or
something, otherwise there's xman.

> So what I ask for is either the documentation in a format which I can
> view, which is easy to download, a converter of somesort to turn the
> dvi into html or text or something, or a fix for kdvi itself.

I've never used kdvi, so I'm probably talking rubbish here, but if it's
anything like a lot of KDE apps it will be built over something else:
i.e., so may need to have standard X dvi installed, etc. as well as the
kdvi packages. I guess you could pop your SuSE disk in and do a ls
*dvi*.rpm, and see how that differs from rpm -qa | grep dvi to see if
you've missed any packages.

Hope this helps,

Alex.

BTW - as a K user myself, can I recommend KDevelop to you wholeheartedly?
It comes with a documentation browser as standard, which covers APIs,
classes, and other stuff you'll want from time to time. It really is very
good, and I believe it's reached version 1? Comes with the KDK, and Kdbg
goes in nicely too ;))

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