Somewhere along the line sox's build system started to omit installing the play man page. The portion of the configure/Makefile that would do this seems quirky, but the simple portage based hack goes like this: --- sox-12.17.9.ebuild. 2006-08-18 02:56:38.000000000 +0200 +++ sox-12.17.9.ebuild 2006-08-18 02:51:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ } src_install() { - make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "make install failed" + make DESTDIR="${D}" install install-play || die "make install failed" prepallman dodoc Changelog README TODO *.txt
Fixed in CVS.