egcs 1.1.1 INSTALL files

Jeffrey A Law law@hurl.cygnus.com
Sun Feb 28 23:30:00 GMT 1999


  In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9902270147430.20995-100000@alphard.dbai.tuwien.ac.a
t>you write:
  > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >>> Start looking at the INSTALL/{FAQ,FINALINSTALL,INDEX} files.
  > >> What you're referring to are the versions of those files that have been
  > >> de-HTMLized by `lynx -dump`.
  > >> Jeff, I agree that we should fix that. How about post-processing these
  > >> files with something like 
  > >>  sed -e s#file://localhost/egcs/carton/law/trash/# http://egcs.cygnus.com
  > /#g
  > > It ought to do the right thing in egcs-1.1.2 :-)  We should find out as s
  > oon
  > > as I make the first prerelease.
  > 
  > Hmm, no, sorry. :-(
  > 
  > In INSTALL/INDEX, for example, we have 
  >   [2] http://egcs.cygnus.com/egcs-1.1.2-pre2/INSTALL/faq.html
  > and in FAQ we have
  >   [5] http://egcs.cygnus.com/egcs-1.1.2-pre2/INSTALL/faq.html#general
Thinking more about this, the whole point behind providing the html files
in the release was for folks without web access.  So they should point into
the local directory, not the web server.

This sucks.

jeff



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