Patch to move more chapters from gcc.texi to separate files

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 13 15:03:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> I thought about this a bit, and I think we can remove linux-and-gnu.texi
> from the GCC manual and replace it by a suitable link to the corresponding
> web page.
> 
> For the text around that link, you could borrow from the GNU homepage:
> 
>   The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like
>   operating system which is free software: the GNU system.  (GNU is a
>   recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix'';  it is pronounced "guh-NEW".)
>   Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now
>   widely used; though these systems are often referred to as ``Linux'',
>   they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.

Where should this go in the manual (both position in the printed manual
and menu entry in the Info one)?  Should it go in both user and internals
manuals if they are split (which is the direction this work is aiming
for)?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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