Re: egcs 1.1.1 INSTALL files

[var at bawooner dot engr dot sgi dot com (Victor A. Riley)]

On Feb 26, 22:58, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Subject: Re: egcs 1.1.1 INSTALL files
>
>   In message
<Pine.GSO.4.10.9902270147430.20995-100000@alphard.dbai.tuwien.ac.a
> t>you write:
>   > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   > >>> Start looking at the INSTALL/{FAQ,FINALINSTALL,INDEX} files.
>   > >> What you're referring to are the versions of those files that have
been
>   > >> de-HTMLized by `lynx -dump`.
>   > >> Jeff, I agree that we should fix that. How about post-processing these
>   > >> files with something like
>   > >>  sed -e
s#file://localhost/egcs/carton/law/trash/#http://egcs.cygnus.com
>   > /#g
>   > > It ought to do the right thing in egcs-1.1.2 :-)  We should find out as
s
>   > oon
>   > > as I make the first prerelease.
>   >
>   > Hmm, no, sorry. :-(
>   >
>   > In INSTALL/INDEX, for example, we have
>   >   [2] http://egcs.cygnus.com/egcs-1.1.2-pre2/INSTALL/faq.html
>   > and in FAQ we have
>   >   [5] http://egcs.cygnus.com/egcs-1.1.2-pre2/INSTALL/faq.html#general
> Ignore my last messages.  The ravings of someone under the influence of
> flu medicines.
>
> The files in question are the plaintext files, not the html sources.  Having
> the plaintext stuff reference pages on the web is probably reasonable.

having them reference the web pages is about the only solution there is...
unless you have a sed that gets shipped with the sources to modify them in
the document directory on the user's machine.  The problem with local HTML
files is that you need a full path to reference them and the full path will
be different on every user's system OR you need to reference them relative to
the current directory.  For instance

file://localhost/egcs/carton/law/trash/egcs-1.1.1/INSTALL/faq.html#gcc-2-diff

won't work on my system but

file:faq.html#gcc-2-diff

would if I was looking at this from that directory already. But it would
confuse
most users just reading thie file printed out.  Probably best to just refer
them to the web pages... but let them know a static copy is available in the
INSTALL directory.

	Victor



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