One can't access the binutils documention with man or info Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1, emerge bin-utils 2. man gprof 3. info gprof Actual Results: man gprof No manual entry for gprof info gprof Unable to find node referenced by `Binutils' in `(dir.gz)Top'. (at the bottom of the screen) Expected Results: displayed the man page displayed the info page Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Sep 29 2004, 04:19:13)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -minline-all-stringops -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe -fmove-all-movables -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -ftracer -funroll-loops -fpeel-loops -fold-unroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fbranch-target-load-optimize" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -minline-all-stringops -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe -fmove-all-movables -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -ftracer -funroll-loops -fpeel-loops -fold-unroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fbranch-target-load-optimize -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/OS/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acpi adns alsa apm artworkextra audiofile avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bmp cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb divx4linux dlloader doc dv dvd dvdr edl eds encode esd extensions f77 faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac fmod foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm geoip ggi gif gimpprint gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imap imlib java javascript jbig jpeg junit lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live lua lzo mad maildir matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozxmlterm mpeg nas ncurses network nls nntp nptl objc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime radeon readline real rtc sasl sdl slang slp sndfile speex spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svg svga tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff transcode truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vim-with-x wmf wxwindows x86 xanim xchatdccserver xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi video_cards_radeon" Well what's actually needed is the binutils maintainer to fix the ebuild so it places man and info pages to the right paths or it could be something better left handled by binutils-config.
fixed in binutils-config-1.4
