Bug 16915

Summary:	M4 program & man page incorrectly installed ...
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mario Scalas <mario.scalas>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mario Scalas 2003-03-05 15:04:33 UTC

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).

Comment 1 Mario Scalas 2003-03-05 15:06:05 UTC

 
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 ;)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-03-05 21:22:49 UTC

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 ;)