Bug 281464 – sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3: empty man pages

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description David Radice 2009-08-14 12:33:09 UTC]

The manpages installed with gcc are empty.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man gcc
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
An empty man page.

Expected Results:  
A full man page.

I have already tried to re-emerge gcc, but it didn't work.

I have two almost identical Gentoo Linux installations on two different amd64 machines: only one of them has this issue.

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Here is the emerge --info from the machine where I am experiencing this issue.

davide@kerr ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en it"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/mine /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lapack latex ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis x264 xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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Here is the emerge --info of a machine where gcc man pages are installed correctly.

davide@macbook ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (!..//usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T7200_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/mnt/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en it"
PKGDIR="/mnt/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/mnt/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/overlays/mine /mnt/overlays/layman/science /mnt/overlays/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox fortran ftp gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lapack latex ldap libnotify lirc mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg msn mudflap multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis xcomposite xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en it" LIRC_DEVICES="macmini" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide j2ee java php nb visualweb websvccommon" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 intel vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-08-14 12:46:33 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256608 ***