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Re: Link modified itself?
On 04/06/2010 03:36 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
>
>>> 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.
I think there are two issues:
a) the anchor is not stable
b) the text of the anchor is change
This email is about the latter issue: The file in CVS and the file on
the webserver differ, which causes the reference to break.
> All
> anchors will change whenever an anchor is added/deleted or moved
> around.
>
Well, as long as they are stable around the 4.5 release it is fine. One
probably should change them to the documentation of the 4.5 branch, when
it becomes available, as it is more stable and reflects the 4.5 branch
status better.
Tobias