RE: Broken link and defunct search

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> Janis wrote:
> > Gerald, the page in question is for node "C++ Misunderstandings".
> > makeinfo 4.7 replaces '+' in a file name with '_002b', and makeinfo
> > 4.6 replaced it with '-'.  I don't know if the obvious fix of
> > changing the link in bugs.html is really the correct thing to do.
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg00487.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-07/msg00946.html
> [...]
> I guess there must be further instances scattered throughout the website.
> It should be possible to dig them all up fairly easily by checking out the
> repository with the webpages in and using "find . -type f | xargs grep
> __00", shouldn't it?

Personally, I consider this an annoying bug in makeinfo 4.7; for user
visible addresses "_002b" is just ridiculous to use instead of "-", and
in our case possible conflicts between different strings simply are not
an issue.

I just sent a message to the texinfo maintainers to see whether they are 
willing to provide an option to disable this new behavior (or whether 
there is some workaround).

In the worst case, I'll probably do a big sed over the GCC web pages. :-(

Gerald