thanks.html broken

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007250203030.54486-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
you write:
  > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >> The link thanks.html is broken in various ways.  At
  > >> http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html , all the links on the page are broken.  
  > > We'll have to fix that.
  > 
  > The question is: How? :-/
It shouldn't be *that* hard.


  > >> At http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/thanks.html , it doesn't exist.
  > > This is out of our hands.  We don't maintain that server.
  > 
  > One solution would be to hard-code all links to thanks.html as
  > http://gcc.gnu.org/thanks.html .
Yup.  That is the recommended solution for things which are generated
and can't be easily mirrored.

Or we can see if the FSF can change their mirroring process.

  > And this does not really solve the problem, as also on gcc.gnu.org
  > every single link in thanks.html is broken.
Again, how bloody hard can this be to fix.  :-)


  > >> In order to fix both problems, I'd suggest creating a new symlink in 
  > >> onlinedocs/ called gcc_contributors.html, which links to gcc_23.html.  
  > > Not suitable since the name "gcc_23.html" is not stable.
  > 
  > How is thanks.html currently generated?
By running texi2html over the gcc manual, finding the generated file with
the contributors list and making a symlink point to that file.


  > Perhaps we should generate it, do some simpley post-processing, check it
  > into CVS, and check it out via the regulary machinery which also does
  > proper post-processing using MetaHTML etc?
Let's try real hard to avoid checking it into CVS at all.  That just makes
for more headaches than it solves.  SImilarly for trying to MetaHTML-izing
it since it's coming out of texi2html.

jeff