Bug 854893

Summary: nm - Inconsistency between man page and help
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Filip Holec <fholec>
Component: binutilsAssignee: Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Filip Holec 2012-09-06 08:49:18 UTC
Description of problem:
In man, option --synthetic is not present.
Also review placement of -r --reverse-sort (could be before -S --print-size).

In help, option -v is missing near -n --numeric-sort

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.23.51.0.1-3.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check man page
2. Check --help option
  
Actual results:
Inconsistent man page/help

Expected results:
Consistent man page/help

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Comment 1 Nick Clifton 2012-09-10 15:42:14 UTC
This is now fixed in the mainline FSF binutils sources and will be fixed in rawhide by the next merge of the FSF sources into the Fedora sources.

Comment 2 Nick Clifton 2012-09-11 13:58:57 UTC
Updated manual page available in: binutils-2.23.51.0.2-1.fc19