Tobias Hintze:

package/base/coreutils/dont-run-help2man.patch.cross

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+help2man can fail in stage 1 if the build system's glibc is older than 2.4.
+It also fails in cross-builds since it tries to execute cross-built programs. 
+
+--- coreutils-6.9/man/Makefile.in.orig	2007-03-22 22:20:22.000000000 +0100
++++ coreutils-6.9/man/Makefile.in	2007-06-28 11:58:24.581881000 +0200
+@@ -857,6 +857,7 @@
+ 	      'or inadequate' 1>&2 \
+ 	    ;;							\
+ 	  *)							\
++	    if false ; then					\
+ 	    rm -f $@						\
+ 	    && { echo "Updating man page $@";			\
+ 	         rm -rf $t;					\
+@@ -869,7 +870,8 @@
+ 	       }						\
+ 	    && sed 's|$*\.td/||g' $t/$@ > $@			\
+ 	    && chmod a-w $@					\
+-	    && rm -rf $t ;;					\
++	    && rm -rf $t ;					\
++	    fi ;;						\
+ 	esac
+ 
+ check-local: check-x-vs-1 check-programs-vs-x