When I try to open the man page for ld, man complains and exits cleanly. however, the error message seems unclear, and it doesn't display the manual page I asked for. This probably happens with other pages as well, but I haven't confirmed that. The same behaviour occurs on a friend's gentoo system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ man ld Actual Results: fgets: Success Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz No manual entry for ld Expected Results: Either "No manual entry for ld" or display manual page as usual. Done from console on almost-clean boot. Gentoo 2004.2 installation, nothing unusual happening. I've put normal instead of minor because it may point to a fault in other manual pages or man itself.
Created attachment 37251 [details] Short copy & paste of the bug
cf. bug #43161 (Feb 27, 2004) and bug #35762 (Dec 13, 2003)
neglected to provide `emerge info` also, please check other manpages
Confirmed with all of the list of man pages on #35762 except "as", for which the normal "no manual entry" message appears. [continuity@pseudo: ~] $ emerge -p binutils [ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Emerge info, this is the default + mirrors: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7 ) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i386-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirror s.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ht tp://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm g tk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls o ggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang s pell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" From #35762, it appears that the bug occurs in stage1 installs, where perl is not present.. it seems logical that the man pages in the stage3 file were built from a stage1 with no perl, which caused the bug.. as soon as binutils is re-emerged or updated, it would be fixed. This hasn't happened as I've only the system installed a short while. (...time passes...) Ok, I emerged binutils and the man page for ld works perfectly now, along with a random selection from the list. Still no man for as, although the command is there: [continuity@pseudo: ~] $ man as No manual entry for as [continuity@pseudo: ~] $ ls -l /usr/share/man/ | grep as [continuity@pseudo: ~] $ as --version GNU assembler 2.14.90.0.8 20040114 /* etc */ This assembler was configured for a target of `i386-pc-linux-gnu'. If that's true, then the stage3 file is broken in that respect, and there might be similar bugs that could be caused by no perl (maybe). Anyway, works now. Thanks =]
