Created attachment 391752 [details, diff] Proposed patch binutils-config (all versions) doesn't correctly detect the binutils MANPATH and INFOPATH when used for ROOT != /. Attached patches fixes this.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Fix by Ruud Koolen for ROOT handling with man/info paths http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/binutils-config/binutils-config-4-r2.ebuild?rev=1.1 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/binutils-config/files/binutils-config-4?r1=1.2&r2=1.3