brokent link

[Joseph S. Myers]

On 3 May 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On May  2, 2001, Laurent Vaills <laurent.vaills@france.sun.com> wrote:
> 
> > The link pointed by the text Mailing Lists on the left side on
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/java/ causes an error 404.
> 
> Thanks for your report.  The links are correct at
> <URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ >, so this is probably some problem with
> the mirroring at www.gnu.org.  Webmasters@gnu.org, will you please
> verify?

The problem is two-fold:

* The link (see GCJNAV in style.mhtml) is to the old file name mail.html,
which has been removed - java/mail.html now redirects to the toplevel
lists.html.  The fix in style.mhtml is trivial, but I don't know whether
anything special would need to be done to cause all relevant pages to be
regenerated after a new style.mhtml is checked in or whether that happens
automatically.

* The .htaccess files on gcc.gnu.org would need rewriting when used on
www.gnu.org to allow for the /software/gcc prefix on the old file name
being redirected.

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