diff --git a/core/binutils/build b/core/binutils/build
index 16fc9f36..8cef90e8 100755
--- a/core/binutils/build
+++ b/core/binutils/build
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 patch -p1 < fix-fd-issue.patch
 
+# Latest binutils tarball has falsely generated (empty) manual pages.
+# Generating them requires perl. Temporary fix until next release.
+! kiss l perl || {
+    patch -p1 < fix-empty-man.patch
+    rm -f binutils/doc/*.1 ld/ld.1 gas/doc/as.1 gprof/gprof.1
+}
+
 cat > makeinfo <<EOF
 #!/bin/sh
 printf 'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 5.2\n'
diff --git a/core/binutils/checksums b/core/binutils/checksums
index e22ee66b..b2a525a0 100644
--- a/core/binutils/checksums
+++ b/core/binutils/checksums
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 820d9724f020a3e69cb337893a0b63c2db161dadcb0e06fc11dc29eb1e84a32c
 9374c853799630e0aa0b3a97db260874418bbee3a21d8becad6a019c9f436636
+10cbf96312ae3662a0fb9606e0f9c36ce483fe95006fd215d7bceb00b81169ac
diff --git a/core/binutils/patches/fix-empty-man.patch b/core/binutils/patches/fix-empty-man.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..99fd4f68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/binutils/patches/fix-empty-man.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/etc/texi2pod.pl b/etc/texi2pod.pl
+index 11f70d1..8e50c08 100644
+--- a/etc/texi2pod.pl
++++ b/etc/texi2pod.pl
+@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ while ($_ = shift) {
+ 	    $flag = shift;
+ 	}
+         push (@ipath, $flag);
++    } elsif (/^--no-split$/) {
+     } elsif (/^-/) {
+ 	usage();
+     } else {
diff --git a/core/binutils/sources b/core/binutils/sources
index e5befec0..dfdc47a4 100644
--- a/core/binutils/sources
+++ b/core/binutils/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-VERSION.tar.xz
 patches/fix-fd-issue.patch
+patches/fix-empty-man.patch