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Re: Dead link http://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html on http://gcc.gnu.org/install/
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Thomas Boehne <TBoehne at ADwin dot de>, gcc at gnu dot org, gerald at pfeifer dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, bonzini at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:08:02 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Dead link http://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html on http://gcc.gnu.org/install/
- References: <200602210957.19109.TBoehne@ADwin.de> <20060221103634.GA17663@ozlabs.au.ibm.com>
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Good find, thanks. For install/build.html, for instance:
>
> revision 1.26
> date: 2001/05/23 06:02:05; author: gerald; state: dead; lines: +0 -0
> Remove all install documentation in HTML format, as this now resides in
> gcc/doc/install.texi.
>
> Gerald removed these files for the reason shown above. However I'm
> not sure what we should do about it. Perhaps provide a small page
> explaining where to get installation docs.
This is not the relevant reference; the files should be generated by
install.texi2html. See, instead,
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gccadmin/2006-q1/msg00132.html>:
/tmp/gcc-doc-update.4743/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi:1724: Footnote defined without parent node.
makeinfo: Removing output file `/www/gcc/htdocs-preformatted/install/build.html' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
[...]
Removing obsolete file ./install/build.html
I suspect
r111295 | bonzini | 2006-02-20 08:29:17 +0000 (Mon, 20 Feb 2006) | 59 lines
of being the responsible patch.
I've installed the following patch to ensure that install.texi2html halts
with error status (and so update_web_docs_svn does so) when such an error
occurs.
Index: doc/install.texi2html
===================================================================
--- doc/install.texi2html (revision 111331)
+++ doc/install.texi2html (working copy)
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@
# $SOURCEDIR and $DESTDIR, resp., refer to the directory containing
# the texinfo source and the directory to put the HTML version in.
#
-# (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation
+# (C) 2001, 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation
# Originally by Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, June 2001.
#
# This script is Free Software, and it can be copied, distributed and
# modified as defined in the GNU General Public License. A copy of
# its license can be downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+set -e
+
SOURCEDIR=${SOURCEDIR-.}
DESTDIR=${DESTDIR-HTML}
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- ChangeLog (revision 111331)
+++ ChangeLog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-02-21 Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * doc/install.texi2html: Use set -e.
+
2006-02-21 Richard Sandiford <richard@codesourcery.com>
* doc/tm.texi (ASM_OUTPUT_SHARED_COMMON, ASM_OUTPUT_SHARED_BSS)
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