Missing man pages

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Hi,

I can’t seem to install the manpages related to pthread_cond_* (example) on NixOS 19.09. I have manpages and posix_man_pages listed in my environment.systemPackages, and have the options documentation = { dev.enable = true; doc.enable = true; }; all set in my configuration.nix. I also tried updating mandb manually to no avail. Any ideas on how I can install these man pages?

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I have the same problem and can seem to get gcc man pages in my environment. Any hints are appreciated.

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Do you have all these set to true?

documentation.enable
documentation.man.enable
documentation.dev.enable

Is the page missing both when you run man as a user and as root? What does manpath command print?

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The documentation options are all set to true. I’m trying this as normal user. I also get the expected behavior for other tools, e.g.:

% nix-shell -p pv
% manpath 
[...]:/nix/store/p0swm9ajh7j1bblbzm2gzd14j7wvbfv5-pv-1.6.6/share/man:[...]:/run/current-system/sw/share/man:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/man
% man pv
[ works ]

GCC or clang both don’t work:

% nix-shell -p gcc clang
% manpath 
/nix/store/hdybipp5dymakgkp14z7gnp5da23n0zf-patchelf-0.9/share/man:/nix/store/9aqz6pkigya6idg8r7wrvbxwlay30bs0-clang-7.1.0/share/man:/nix/store/w9l2nmg6pclz944f33zg17bpgvq27f4f-findutils-4.7.0/share/man:/nix/store/48jg7qxx2i3ndgr1b67imy6qr2nvsfjx-diffutils-3.7/share/man:/nix/store/5gqv9dn7yih5hsz5by9mxhf2384zjsza-gnused-4.8/share/man:/nix/store/rdl0mdfawd3gyv45nml3n6iw134d2g8h-gnugrep-3.4/share/man:/nix/store/c98k0shcp2yp69g81mqhbqw3xbxvnk0r-gnutar-1.32/share/man:/nix/store/smccfl7q9cz2ilzds5rg6f02l41s647p-patch-2.7.6/share/man:/run/current-system/sw/share/man:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/man

% man gcc
No manual entry for gcc

% man clang
No manual entry for clang
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I think the issue with gcc is that the man page is in separate output which nix-shell does not add to the environment. pv seems to have only single output that also includes the man page.

The clang man page is in the clang-manpages package, no idea why. Passing it to nix-shell -p does not add it to the environment though, also no idea why.

You can make these pages accessible by putting gcc or clang-manpages in your environment.systemPackages or installing them with nix-env which installs all outputs:

By default all outputs are installed for each derivation. That can be reduced by setting meta.outputsToInstall.

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The stateless way: nix run nixpkgs.gcc.man -c man gcc.
Interestingly is there a nix-shell analogue?

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Related:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3538

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/65325

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Any update about this ? even with all documentation.* activated a man pthread_create ou man memcpy does not work.

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Solved my problem by adding the packages linux-manual man-pages man-pages-posix
and generating the cache with man.generateCaches = true

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