Emerging gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r5 (well, actually `world', but that probably doesn't matter), I get the following in the build log: [...] creating /var/tmp/portage/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r5/work/linux-2.4.28-gentoo-r5/Documentation/man/sscanf.9 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r5/work/linux-2.4.28-gentoo-r5/Documentation/DocBook' >>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r5 >>> Install gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r5 into /var/tmp/portage/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r5/image/ category sys-kernel >>> Copying sources ... doc sed: can't read scripts/makeman: No such file or directory * Installing manpages... make: *** No rule to make target `installmandocs'. Stop. [ !! ] sed: can't read scripts/makeman: No such file or directory man: prepallstrip: strip: strip: >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r5/image/ [EOF] (so the emerge hasn't failed). Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dv ipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config / /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mir rors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://chod.cwru .edu/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 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups doc dvd emacs encode exif f77 fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gmp gtk gtk2 guile imlib ipv6 jpeg l ibg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis o pengl oss pam pdflib perl png qt quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb x86 xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib"
Fixed in eclass, thanks.
I'm unlikely to build another 2.4 kernel, so I can't verify the fix. Feel free to close this.