[patch,committed] Remove external links that texinfo would shred.

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Sun Dec 17 20:23:00 GMT 2017


On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
> texinfo is shredding external links.
> 
> Applied the following patch to prevent uses from 404 not found.
> 
> Johann
> 
> gcc/
> 	* doc/extend.texi (AVR Function Attributes): Remove weblink to
> 	Binutils doc as TEXI will mess them up.
> 	* doc/invoke.texi (AVR Options): Same here.

Strictly speaking it's not makeinfo, but post-processing I put in place 
many years ago to compensate what _was_ a silly change in makeinfo which
started generating "_002d" instead of "-" (and similar substitutions).

In other words, strict correctness was valued over usability and 
backwards-compatibility, let alone intuition or esthetics. </rant>

Unfortunately the workaround has been causing some collateral damage,
too, one of which your patch avoided.

Sorry, and thanks!

Gerald



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