problem on generating man pages with newer autotools

[Michael Matz]

Hello,

On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Iru Cai via Binutils wrote:

> I'm trying to package binutils 2.37 on Arch Linux, but find the man 
> pages in the package are all empty. After looking into the issue, I can 
> see the doc Makefiles invoke automake-1.15, while my system has automake 
> 1.16.

That's not the problem.  Rather the problem is that the 2.37 release 
tarball contains wrongly pre-generated man pages (empty ones).  That the 
man pages are included in a release tarball is correct: it's supposed to 
have fewer build requirements than random git checkouts, but in this case 
it has the effect that even with the right tools available they aren't 
remade, so the empty ones are used.

Do this in the unpacked source directory:
rm -f binutils/doc/*.1
rm -f binutils/doc/cxxfilt.man
rm -f gprof/*.1
rm -f gas/doc/*.1
rm -f ld/*.1


Ciao,
Michael.