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authorXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2021-07-25 22:56:45 +0800
committerXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2021-07-25 22:56:45 +0800
commitff5c009123a8163e90f63dd39aa22ef33fc4dca2 (patch)
tree788e24b31cad0436c19d76ddc451a7039e8558d0
parent9f847521956bf4453693ac58e7f3ddb657ca2dec (diff)
binutils: workaround empty man pages issue
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml11
-rw-r--r--chapter08/binutils.xml7
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 527374497..434bf0120 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@
<listitem revision="sysv"> or <listitem revision="systemd"> as
appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
-->
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>2021-07-25</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[xry111] - Add workaround to install Binutils-2.37 man pages
+ correctly.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>2021-07-23</para>
<itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter08/binutils.xml b/chapter08/binutils.xml
index e90f15b42..9b46907e8 100644
--- a/chapter08/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/binutils.xml
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@
<screen><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys.
Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
+ <para>A glitch in the building system causes the shipped man pages to
+ be empty. Workaround the issue and remove the shipped man pages, so the
+ building system will regenerate man pages correctly:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '63d' etc/texi2pod.pl
+find -name \*.1 -delete</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Now remove one test that prevents the tests from running
to completion:</para>