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Re: [patch,committed] Remove external links that texinfo would shred.
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Georg-Johann Lay <avr at gjlay dot de>
- Cc: gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:23:14 +1300 (NZDT)
- Subject: Re: [patch,committed] Remove external links that texinfo would shred.
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
> texinfo is shredding external links.
>
> Applied the following patch to prevent uses from 404 not found.
>
> Johann
>
> gcc/
> * doc/extend.texi (AVR Function Attributes): Remove weblink to
> Binutils doc as TEXI will mess them up.
> * doc/invoke.texi (AVR Options): Same here.
Strictly speaking it's not makeinfo, but post-processing I put in place
many years ago to compensate what _was_ a silly change in makeinfo which
started generating "_002d" instead of "-" (and similar substitutions).
In other words, strict correctness was valued over usability and
backwards-compatibility, let alone intuition or esthetics. </rant>
Unfortunately the workaround has been causing some collateral damage,
too, one of which your patch avoided.
Sorry, and thanks!
Gerald