glibc manual on www.gnu.org is out of date

Collin Funk collin.funk1@gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 17:44:57 GMT 2025


Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> The glibc manual at
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/index.html
> is out-of-date (still version 2.38). Whereas the one at
>   https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/latest/html_node/index.html
>   https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/2.42/html_node/index.html
> is up-to-date.
>
> Could the one on gnu.org be updated, please?

I assume the gnu.org link was indexed by Google or some other search
engine?

The links on https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ under documentation link
to https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/ where the updated manuals are.

That seems better than having to maintain both, in my opinion.

Collin


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