Re: gperf switch

[Donn Terry <donn at verinet dot com>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jan 26, 1999, Clark Evans <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com> wrote:
>
> > I just downloaded the current ecgs HEAD? from the cvs tree
> > using the anonymous access.
>
> > gperf: invalid option -- F
> > I typed "gperf --version" gives me GNU gperf 2.7, I looked and this
> > seems to be the most updated version (ftp.gnu.org)
>
> Check for a gperf patch within the infrastructure directory, in the
> egcs ftp site, or use contrib/egcs_update to update your CVS tree.
>

Having just gone through that same pain yesterday, I can sympathise.
There are two (at least) problem links on the egcs.cygnus.com webpage:
1) The link to the ftp site is not marked as a link, and as such when a
    new participant is looking for clues, it's not very obvious.  (And,
    as far as I was able to discover with the search engines I tried,
    none of them provide a reference to that gperf (or, if they do
they're
    swamped by bazillions of academic explanation pages for
    gperf).

2) There doesn't appear to be any link at all to the "install"
discussion,
    which I found via a backdoor thru the cygnus site search engine.

I'll also note that several important topics are buried as press
releases,
rather than having a "look here" entry (both the status and preliminary
performance web pages are that way).

A truly big help would be simply a list of web page titles and links to
them (plus one for the ftp stuff, altho a html index would be great).

Donn Terry

P.S.  Take this as a suggestion to the truly kind and  benevolent
person (whose name I have lost) who volunteered to maintain the web
pages.