Bug 870032
| Summary: | devtoolset-1.1-binutils: wrong description of 'as -v' in man page | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Developer Toolset | Reporter: | David Kaspar // Dee'Kej <deekej> | |
| Component: | binutils | Assignee: | Patsy Griffin <pfrankli> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Cermak <mcermak> | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | DTS 1.1 RHEL 6 | CC: | law, mcermak, mfranc, mnewsome, mpolacek, ohudlick | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Documentation, EasyFix | |
| Target Release: | 1.1 | |||
| Hardware: | All | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | devtoolset-1.1-binutils-2.23.51.0.3-3 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 870125 1038339 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-01-22 14:39:26 UTC | Type: | Bug | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 870125, 1038339 | |||
I can now confirm, that this bug is also present on i386 and ppc64 architectures of DTS1.1 for RHEL6. I believe only the manpage should be fixed: s/-version/-verbose/. I don't think this is sufficient, even this line should be adjusted:
[@b{-v}] [@b{-version}] [@b{--version}] [@b{-W}] [@b{--warn}]
and there are more occurrences of "[^-]-version".
Duh. On the second though, we just have to correct manpage in sense that `-version' also exits. Patch posted upstream. http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-10/msg00466.html Fixed. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2013-0173.html |
Description of problem: Manual page of GNU portable assembler 'as' has wrong description of -v option. '-v' states for --verbose option, but in its man page it says, that '-v' option is used for showing version of this application. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GNU assembler version 2.23.51.0.3-2.el6 20120918 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run 'as -v' and see its output. 2. Run 'as --verbose' and see its output. Note: the outputs will be same and the program will be waiting for input from stdin. 3. Now run 'man as' and see the section describing '-v' option and what it says: "-v -version Print the as version." Actual results: Prints the version of the program. However, 'as' is then using --verbose mode and waiting for the input. Expected results: 2 possible expected results: -- 1) Man page is corrected and version displaying is provided only by '-version' and '--version' options. -- 2) The as utility is patched to behave as described in its manual page. This would mean printing version information and exiting afterwards. Additional info: This issue has been found only on x86_64 RHEL-6.3 so far. However, it's possible that same issue is occuring on every other platform supported by DTS-1.1.