diff --git a/share/man/man5/src.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/src.conf.5
--- a/share/man/man5/src.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/src.conf.5
@@ -906,7 +906,24 @@
 .It Va WITHOUT_LLVM_ASSERTIONS
 Disable debugging assertions in LLVM.
 .It Va WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS
-Install LLVM's binutils (ar, addr2line, nm, etc.) instead of ELF Tool Chain's.
+Install LLVM's binutils (without an llvm- prefix),
+instead of ELF Tool Chain's tools.
+This includes
+.Xr addr2line 1 ,
+.Xr ar 1 ,
+.Xr nm 1 ,
+.Xr objcopy 1 ,
+.Xr ranlib 1 ,
+.Xr readelf 1 ,
+.Xr size 1 ,
+and
+.Xr strip 1 .
+Regardless of this setting, LLVM tools are used for
+.Xr c++filt 1
+and
+.Xr objdump 1 .
+.Xr strings 1
+is always provided by ELF Tool Chain.
 .It Va WITHOUT_LLVM_COV
 Do not build the
 .Xr llvm-cov 1
diff --git a/tools/build/options/WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS b/tools/build/options/WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS
--- a/tools/build/options/WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS
+++ b/tools/build/options/WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS
@@ -1,2 +1,19 @@
 .\" $FreeBSD$
-Install LLVM's binutils (ar, addr2line, nm, etc.) instead of ELF Tool Chain's.
+Install LLVM's binutils (without an llvm- prefix),
+instead of ELF Tool Chain's tools.
+This includes
+.Xr addr2line 1 ,
+.Xr ar 1 ,
+.Xr nm 1 ,
+.Xr objcopy 1 ,
+.Xr ranlib 1 ,
+.Xr readelf 1 ,
+.Xr size 1 ,
+and
+.Xr strip 1 .
+Regardless of this setting, LLVM tools are used for
+.Xr c++filt 1
+and
+.Xr objdump 1 .
+.Xr strings 1
+is always provided by ELF Tool Chain.