Missing man pages for following programs from glibc /usr/bin/catchsegv /usr/bin/lddlibc4 /usr/bin/mtrace /usr/bin/pcprofiledump /usr/bin/rpcgen /usr/bin/sprof /usr/bin/xtrace /usr/sbin/iconvconfig /usr/sbin/rpcinfo Commonly needed and found on other systems (debian/ubuntu): catchsegv(1), sprof(1), rpcgen(1), xtrace(1), mtrace(1), rpcinfo(8), iconvconfig(8) Reproducible: Always probably should be included in the patches (in extra/) like locale-gen(8) I personally care about rpcgen and mtrace, in that order. I can attach rpcgen.1 from ubuntu if you need it.
lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/bin/catchsegv /usr/bin/catchsegv lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man catchsegv No manual entry for catchsegv lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/bin/lddlibc4 /usr/bin/lddlibc4 lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man lddlibc4 No manual entry for lddlibc4 lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/bin/mtrace /usr/bin/mtrace lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man mtrace Formatting page, please wait... lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man 1 mtrace No entry for mtrace in section 1 of the manual lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/bin/pcprofiledump /usr/bin/pcprofiledump lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man pcprofiledump No manual entry for pcprofiledump lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/bin/rpcgen /usr/bin/rpcgen lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man rpcgen No manual entry for rpcgen lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/bin/sprof /usr/bin/sprof lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man sprof No manual entry for sprof lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/bin/xtrace /usr/bin/xtrace lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man xtrace No manual entry for xtrace lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/sbin/iconfconfig ls: cannot access /usr/sbin/iconfconfig: No such file or directory lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/sbin/iconvconfig /usr/sbin/iconvconfig lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man iconvconfig No manual entry for iconvconfig lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ ls /usr/sbin/rpcinfo /usr/sbin/rpcinfo lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ man rpcinfo No manual entry for rpcinfo lthode@blazinpenguin ~ $ /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Library stable release version 2.8, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Compiled by GNU CC version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1). Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.25-gentoo-r7<< system on 2008-09-11. Available extensions: C stubs add-on version 2.1.2 crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others Gentoo snapshot 20080602 Gentoo patchset 2 GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al Support for some architectures added on, not maintained in glibc core. BIND-8.2.3-T5B For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>. Nice...NOT!
Unfortunately the glibc developers don't feel they need to document it with man pages. As such the man-page project has risen up to fill this very necessary hole. Example (output edited for length): $ equery files glibc | grep man /usr/share/man/man5/locale.gen.5.bz2 /usr/share/man/man8/locale-gen.8.bz2 $ equery belongs rpcgen * Searching for rpcgen ... sys-libs/glibc-2.10.1 (/usr/bin/rpcgen) We can see about upstreaming to the man-pages project a few of those man pages and then bringing others in as necessary.
*** Bug 149232 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug seems very similar to bug #42617 (man page for getent is missing). Can these two be merged?
some apps will be documented elsewhere while some are a little too simple to bother writing a man page for them (like lddlibc4).
