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RE: Broken link and defunct search
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
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).
I have not received any response yet...
In the worst case, I'll probably do a big sed over the GCC web pages. :-(
...so I just declared the worst case and added
sed -e 's/_002d/-/g' -e 's/_002a/*/g'
to a strategic place to the wwwdocs/bin/preprocess script on gcc.gnu.org.
Yes, this is kind of embarrassing, but at least deep links into our
installation notes work again.
Joseph, do you want to do something similar for /onlinedocs? The URLs
generated by makeinfo 4.7 are simply gross (and currently external links
and bookmarks into /onlinedocs are broken).
Gerald
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