Just noted that: bash-2.05b# man m4 fgets: No such file or directory Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/m4.1.gz No manual entry for m4 Does the M4 man page exist? bash-2.05b# ll /usr/share/man/man1/m4.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Dec 4 21:07 /usr/share/man/man1/m4.1.gz Wow! 25 bytes ... gzip is a worderful compressor but I believe that there is something wrong here ... info m4 works correctly (Using latest gentoo packages to date).
But it seems there is a fix: re-emerge the m4 package ... It looks like the 1.4_Rc2 M4 man page was corrupted in some way ... (whoever bug-hunter reads it it may be marked as closed ;)
roger ;) if looks like it came from a stage file ... stage files usually nuke doc's on purpose to save space since at some point you'll re-emerge the pkg anyways ;)