1.1.2 bug, news lists

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19990306044434.7143.qmail@deer >you write:
  > Hmm, I haven't looked at the FAQ stuff carefully.  But that sounds
  > like a useful thing to have as well as other things we've discussed.
  > (E.g. a question like "Where can I find the latest information on known
  > bugs in [egcs;gcc;g77;g++;etc.]?", and another like "Where can I find
  > the latest news on what's in recent and upcoming releases?", could
  > be answered via URLs.)
Right.  We don't have a good bugs/news section for the main compiler or g++
at the moment.

I guess the first step would be to reference gcc/NEWS and gcc/cp/NEWS files
(there is not html equivalent for gcc or g++).


  > >The next problem is figuring out how to get a pointer into the news and
  > >bugs section.  The labels inserted by texi2html are based on section
  > >number, not the name of the section.  I suspect with a little perl work
  > >we can add an appropriate label that can be referenced from outside the
  > >document to get to the bugs & news sections.
  > 
  > Dave Love has, in the past, talked about improvements to texi2html
  > being important somehow.  Sure wish I'd had more time and resources
  > to pay attention to his concerns *last* year, especially now that I
  > can more clearly see what he was talking about!
Well, it'll be an ongoing project I'm sure.

The approach I've taken for now is to have a script look at the generated
table of contents file, find the html reference for the bugs and news section
and extract its filename.

Then it makes a symlink called "g77_news.html" to whatever file actually has
the g77 news section.  Simlarly for the bugs section.

That way we can always get to the news via "g77_news.html" and "g77_bugs.html".

Not pretty, but functional.  It may be the case that with some magic tags in
the texi source that we could do the same automatically.  I don't really know
enough about texi or texi2html to know if that's possible.

jeff