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Re: Link modified itself? (was: [wwwdata,committed] fix link anchors in gcc-4.5/changes.html)
- From: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
- To: Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>
- Cc: gcc patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:36:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: Link modified itself? (was: [wwwdata,committed] fix link anchors in gcc-4.5/changes.html)
- References: <4BBB2ABB.4030103@net-b.de> <4BBB30EE.20808@net-b.de>
On 6 April 2010 15:02, Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de> wrote:
> Hello Gerald, hi all,
>
> On 04/06/2010 02:36 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v
>> -
>> href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-fwhole_002dprogram-794";
>> +
>> href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-fwhole_002dprogram-796";
>>
>
> Somehow this change did not work. In the committed file everything is
> fine but at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html I see
> "#index-fwhole-program-796" rather than "#index-fwhole_002dprogram-796"
> which fails to link to the proper place. Any idea?
I think it is well-known but still it is really unfortunate the the
texi->html conversion is not able to generate stable anchors. All
anchors will change whenever an anchor is added/deleted or moved
around. We have this problem everywhere where we do this conversion. I
would say it is a bug.
Cheers,
Manuel.