It's a forward of downstream https://bugs.gentoo.org/804187 # LANG=C ls -lh /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/addr2line.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/ar.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/as.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/c++filt.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/dlltool.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/elfedit.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/gprof.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/ld.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/nm.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/objcopy.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/objdump.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/ranlib.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/readelf.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/size.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/strings.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/strip.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/windmc.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 23:35 /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.37/man/man1/windres.1 Also reproducible on vanilla binutils-gdb. The main suspect of build log: touch ar.1 perl ../../../binutils-gdb/binutils/../etc/texi2pod.pl -I "../../../binutils-gdb/binutils/doc" -I "../../../binutils-gdb/binutils/../libiberty" -I "../../../binutils-gdb/binutils/../bfd/doc" -I ../../bfd/doc --no-split -Dman -Dar < ../../../binutils-gdb/binutils/doc/binutils.texi > ar.pod usage: ../../../binutils-gdb/binutils/../etc/texi2pod.pl [-D toggle...] [infile [outfile]] make[3]: [Makefile:927: ar.1] Error 255 (ignored) (pod2man --center="GNU Development Tools" --release="binutils-2.37.50" --section=1 ar.pod | sed -e '/^.if n .na/d' > ar.1.T$$ && \ mv -f ar.1.T$$ ar.1) || (rm -f ar.1.T$$ && exit 1) pod2man: unable to format ar.pod rm -f ar.pod make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/sl Note that --no-split is not recognized by texi2pod.pl. I suspect --no-split comes from. commit 2faf902da5109e31ad08d84a24f827f0e6f60dc4 Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Sun May 2 12:09:00 2021 -0400 generate single html manual page by default This better matches other GNU projects like autoconf/automake where the html manual is the single page form. We'll support the multi-page form in a follow up change.
Sent https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-July/117503.html for review.
*** Bug 28134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The binutils-2_37-branch branch has been updated by Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=2dad02b6d46eef438cbd14d8511487b056628a38 commit 2dad02b6d46eef438cbd14d8511487b056628a38 Author: Sergei Trofimovich <siarheit@google.com> Date: Mon Jul 26 22:51:18 2021 +0100 texi2pod.pl: add no-op --no-split option support [PR28144] Change 2faf902da ("generate single html manual page by default") added use of --no-split option to makeinfo. binutils reuses makeinfo options for texi2pod.pl wrapper. Unsupported option led to silent manpage truncation. The change adds no-op option support. etc/ PR 28144 * texi2pod.pl: Handle no-op --no-split option. (cherry picked from commit 96a7037cd8573cf065aa6b12baca68696f96d9ca)
Fixed on the branch too.
The master branch has been updated by Nick Clifton <nickc@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=88ae41e17980533927f98339bcb40015522f06c4 commit 88ae41e17980533927f98339bcb40015522f06c4 Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> Date: Tue Aug 31 11:19:56 2021 +0100 Update the how-to-make-a-release document so that a check for empty manual pages is included. cf PR 28144