Use man pages generated by help2man in the host build. diff -u -r ../coreutils-8.24/Makefile.in ./Makefile.in --- ../coreutils-8.24/Makefile.in 2015-07-03 17:23:13.000000000 -0400 +++ ./Makefile.in 2015-07-04 07:38:25.901795437 -0400 @@ -14242,31 +14242,7 @@ @SINGLE_BINARY_FALSE@man/yes.1: src/yes$(EXEEXT) .x.1: - $(AM_V_GEN)name=`echo $@ | sed 's|.*/||; s|\.1$$||'` || exit 1; \ - case $$name in \ - install) prog='ginstall'; argv=$$name;; \ - test) prog='['; argv='[';; \ - *) prog=$$name; argv=$$prog;; \ - esac; \ - rm -f $@ $@-t \ - && t=$*.td \ - && rm -rf $$t \ - && $(MKDIR_P) $$t \ - && (cd $$t && $(LN_S) '$(abs_top_builddir)/src/'$$prog$(EXEEXT) \ - $$argv$(EXEEXT)) \ - && $(run_help2man) \ - --source='$(PACKAGE_STRING)' \ - --include=$(srcdir)/man/$$name.x \ - --output=$$t/$$name.1 \ - --info-page='\(aq(coreutils) '$$name' invocation\(aq' \ - $$t/$$argv$(EXEEXT) \ - && sed \ - -e 's|$*\.td/||g' \ - -e '/For complete documentation/d' \ - $$t/$$name.1 > $@-t \ - && rm -rf $$t \ - && chmod a-w $@-t \ - && mv $@-t $@ + cp $(top_srcdir)/../host-build/$@ $@ .PHONY: check-root check-root: $(MAKE) check TESTS='$(root_tests)' SUBDIRS=.