Disable manpages build and installation, seems the bundled version of help2man is somewhat old and breaks on modern distributions such as Fedora 20, as reported by Kanibal on IRC. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias diff -Nura automake-1.14.1.orig/Makefile.in automake-1.14.1/Makefile.in --- automake-1.14.1.orig/Makefile.in 2014-09-10 18:40:57.554164448 -0300 +++ automake-1.14.1/Makefile.in 2014-09-10 18:42:01.050348068 -0300 @@ -3387,7 +3387,7 @@ check-am: all-am $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS check-local check: check-am -all-am: Makefile $(INFO_DEPS) $(SCRIPTS) $(MANS) $(DATA) +all-am: Makefile $(INFO_DEPS) $(SCRIPTS) $(DATA) installdirs: for dir in "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(infodir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(man1dir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(amdir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(automake_acdir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(automake_internal_acdir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(docdir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(perllibdir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(pkgvdatadir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(scriptdir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(system_acdir)" "$(DESTDIR)$(perllibdir)"; do \ test -z "$$dir" || $(MKDIR_P) "$$dir"; \ @@ -3454,7 +3454,7 @@ install-dist_automake_internal_acDATA install-dist_docDATA \ install-dist_perllibDATA install-dist_pkgvdataDATA \ install-dist_scriptDATA install-dist_system_acDATA \ - install-info-am install-man install-nodist_perllibDATA + install-info-am install-nodist_perllibDATA @$(NORMAL_INSTALL) $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) install-data-hook install-dvi: install-dvi-am