$ pkg install binutils $ pkg info -l binutils | fgrep man/ | xargs file -z /usr/local/man/man1/addr2line.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/ar.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/as.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/c++filt.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/elfedit.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/gprof.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/ld.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/nm.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/objcopy.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/objdump.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/ranlib.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/readelf.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/size.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/strings.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) /usr/local/man/man1/strip.1.gz: empty (gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix) $ pkg info -l binutils | fgrep man/ | xargs md5 MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/addr2line.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/ar.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/as.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/c++filt.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/elfedit.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/gprof.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/ld.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/nm.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/objcopy.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/objdump.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/ranlib.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/readelf.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/size.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/strings.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa MD5 (/usr/local/man/man1/strip.1.gz) = 4a4dd3598707603b3f76a2378a4504aa
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #0) I can confirm this. Man pages are empty right after extract. $ ls -latrth binutils/doc/*.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/addr2line.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/windres.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/windmc.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/strip.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/strings.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/size.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/readelf.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/ranlib.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/objdump.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/objcopy.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/nm.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/elfedit.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/dlltool.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/c++filt.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 fernape fernape 0B Jul 18 18:48 binutils/doc/ar.1 It seems to be a really ugly bug upstream: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=bug-binutils%40gnu.org&q=28144&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
Fix seems available https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28144#c3
(In reply to Li-Wen Hsu from comment #2) I am not very familiar with this port, but in our case, man pages are empty right after extract. If I understand the Makefiles correctly, texti2pod.pl is supposed to run first to generate .pod files from binutils.texi and then, pod2man should be generating the final manual pages. I just tried in any case to give it a try and after applying the patch and building the port the .gz files are 20B and the manual pages are effectively empty. In my poudriere log there is no reference to texi2pod.pl whatsoever.
Created attachment 227554 [details] Proposed patch I am not very familiar with this port, but in our case, man pages are empty right after extract. If I understand the Makefiles correctly, texti2pod.pl is supposed to run first to generate .pod files from binutils.texi and then, pod2man should be generating the final manual pages. In addition to the patch, I needed to remove the empty .1 man files that come with the distribution in post-patch. Otherwise the Makefile do not generate them. Tested in 12.2 amd64. Build testing @work for other environments (may take a while)
Builds fine in {11.4,12.2}{amd64,i386}, 13.0amd64 and current amd64. I would like to see at least one other architecture tested before committing this :-)
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=a055899f4f1c41d07ae5b8d3f5a9983173ef76f6 commit a055899f4f1c41d07ae5b8d3f5a9983173ef76f6 Author: Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-08-30 17:19:36 +0000 Commit: Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-09-02 05:43:11 +0000 devel/binutils: Fix manpage generation after 2.37 A bug[1] upstream in 2.37 left empty man pages after build. The downloaded distribution file comes with empty man pages too. Apply patch from upstream[1] and force man page regeration by removing the ones which come with the distribution. [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28144 [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28144#c3 PR: 257982 Reported by: jbeich@ devel/binutils/Makefile | 3 +++ devel/binutils/files/patch-etc_texi2pod.pl (new) | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
Committed, Thanks!