Bugzilla Bug 112249

the %awk% variable from makewathis.in seems not to be replaced with the correct
awk path in /usr/sbin/makewathis at generation time.
There is a remaining %awk% var line 69 of /usr/sbin/makewathis.

Result :
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 102: fg: no job control
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 401: %awk%: command not found

Problem is solved applying this patch :
--- /usr/sbin/makewhatis        2005-11-12 11:47:50.000000000 +0100
+++ makewhatis  2005-11-12 11:48:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 # but that leads to problems and bugs.

 # AWK=/usr/bin/gawk
-AWK=%awk%
+AWK=/usr/bin/gawk

 # Find a place for our temporary files. If security is not a concern, use
 #      TMPFILE=/tmp/whatis$$; TMPFILEDIR=none

Problem probably comes from new patch files/man-1.6a-makewhatis-config.patch
introduced in this version.

Regards

reopen with the output of emerge --info

Created an attachment (id=72728) [details]
patch that solve the problem

This patch to man-1.6a-makewhatis-config.patch solve the problem for me

Sorry : emerge --info

Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.14-r2d2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-r2d2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
-pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildsyspkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms
strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/
http://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/
http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/gcpan-portage /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 S3TC X X509 a52 aac acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm async
audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr codecs commercial
crypt cups dba dga distribution dnd dri dv dvd dvdread editor emboss encode esd
ethereal exif expat extensions faad fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb
fortran freetype fs gd gdbm gif gimp glut gmp gpm gtk gtk2 hal idled idn
imagemagick imap imlib2 iproute2 ipv6 ithreads jabber java jce jpeg jpeg2k kde
kdeenablefinal kipi kqemu lcms libcaca libg++ libwww live mad maildir matroska
md5sum mhash mikmod mmx mng monkey motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg
mpm-worker ncurses network nls no_wxgtk1 nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ofx ogg
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam_chroot pcre pdflib perl php pic png povray print
python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real recode ruby samba sasl scanner sdl
shaper slang smartcard softmmu speex spell sse sse2 ssl stream svg sysfs syslog
tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tools truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts
udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine
xml2 xprint xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid zlib zvbi video_cards_nvidia linguas_fr
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

I'm getting the same behavior here.

Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=prescott -march=prescott -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/grass60/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=prescott -march=prescott -pipe"
DISTDIR="/home/gentoo/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en-US"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/home/gentoo/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/gentoo/tmp"
PORTDIR="/home/gentoo/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/gentoo/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi activefilter ada aim alsa amd amr
aotuv apache2 arts artswrappersuid artworkextra asm async atlas auctex audiofile
automount bash-completion bcmath bcp bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts bjam bl blas
blender-game bmp bonobo bzip2 c++ cairo calendar cap caps ccache cdda cddb cdf
cdinstall cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chm clanJavaScript clanVoice cli clisp
cmucl cpdflib cpudetection crosscompile crypt cscope css ctype cups curl
curlwrappers cvsgraph daap dba dbm dbus dbx debugger dga dhcp dio directfb
discard-path dnd dpms dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dynagraph ecc editor edl eds
effects emboss emoticon encode enscript epson erandom esd esx examples exif
expat extraicons extramodules fam fame fat fbcon fbdev fbsplash ffmpeg fftw
finger firefox fits flac flash flatfile fltk font-server fontconfig foomaticdb
force-cgi-redirect fortran fpx freetts freetype ftp fuse gb gcc-libffi gcj gcl
gd gdal gdbm geoip geos ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac gkrellm glade glep glgd
glitz glut glx gml gmp gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnome gnome-print
gnomedb gnuplot gpgme gphoto2 gpm gps graphviz grass gs gsl gssapi gstreamer gtk
gtk2 gtkhtml guile gzip hal haskell hddtemp hdf hdf5 hfs high-ints hlapi hou hpn
html httpd i8x0 icc iconv icq id3 ide idea idn image imagemagick imap imlib
imlib2 inifile inkjar insecure-drivers insecure-savers ipv6 itcl jack jai jasper
java javacomm javascript jbig jce jimi jit jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit jython kcal kde
kdeenablefinal kdepim kdexdeltas kqemu ladcca lame lapack largeterminal latex
lcms libcaca libclamav libdsk libg++ libgda libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors
logitech-mouse logrotate logwatch lua lzo lzw mad mail maildir mailwrapper
mapeditor maps math matroska md5sum mhash mikmod mime ming mixer mjpeg mmap mmx
mmxext mng mod mopac7 motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsha1
mozsvg mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer mpqc multiprocess multitarget
musepack music musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses net netcdf network new-login nfs
nls no-old-linux nocd nowin nptl nsplugin ntfs ntlm numarray numeric oav objc
ocaml octave offensive ofx ogdi ogg oggvorbis openal openbabel openexr opengl
osc oss pam parse-clocks pascal patented pcntl pcre pdf pdfkit pdflib pear perl
php physfs pic player plotutils plugin png pnp portaudio posix postfix povray
ppds print pyste python qemu-fast qhull qt quicktime quotas quotes rar rdesktop
readline real recode remix rle rogue rpc rrdtool rss rtc ruby samba sbcl scanner
scp screen sdk sdl seti sftp shared sharedext sharedmem shorten slp smime smp
sndfile sockets softmmu sou sounds speedo speex spell spl sql sqlite sse
sse-filters sse2 ssl stencil-buffer stream subject-rewrite subp subtitles
subversion suid svg svgz symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc szip t1lib tcltk tcpd test
tetex tga theora thesaurus threads tidy tiff timidity tokenizer toolbar
transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts ucs2 ucs4 udev unicode
urandom usb userlocales utf8 uudeview v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager vfat videos vidix
vim-with-x virus-scan visualization vlm voice vorbis webdav win32codecs wmf
wordperfect wv wxwindows xanim xatrix xface xforms xine xinetd xml xml2 xmms
xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc yv12 zip zlib linguas_en-US
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

fixed in 1.6b-r1