GCC wwwdocs move to git done

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@gnu.org
Wed Oct 9 13:39:00 GMT 2019


On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote:
>Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 01:28, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>>I've done the move of GCC wwwdocs to git (using the previously posted and
>>>discussed scripts), including setting up the post-receive hook to do the
>>>same things previously covered by the old CVS hooks, and minimal updates
>>>to the web pages dealing with the CVS setup for wwwdocs.
>>
>>Thanks, Joseph.
>
>+1
>
>I would like to be able to preview changes to the website by using it
>from a local
>webserver.  I realise that individual pages can be viewed in a
>browser / validated
>by uploading - but it would be nice to check connectivity etc.
>
>At the moment, I can’t identify the “mhc” program that is used in
>preparing the text
>(and too many unrelated hits from searches).

I think it's the "metahtml" processor:

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/metahtml/

The binary is 20 years old and, somehow, the source code used to build
it seems to have disappeared.



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