[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[jv244 at cam dot ac dot uk]

------- Comment #3 from jv244 at cam dot ac dot uk  2006-06-12 07:18 -------
(In reply to comment #0)

still failing ... since it has been opened about 2.5y ago, should it be closed
as wontfix ?


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[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[jv244 at cam dot ac dot uk]

------- Comment #4 from jv244 at cam dot ac dot uk  2008-12-08 19:34 -------
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           ~~~~~~~~         '""""`------'


5 years later ... adding a Christmas tree to the bug report.


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[Bug web/12821] [4.2/4.3/4.4 Regression] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[steven at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #5 from steven at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-12-08 20:20 -------
Joseph Myers introduced this in the manual with the following patch:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-01/msg00726.html

So this is a regression.

Ah, and Joseph also explained how to fix this, see comment #2.  So this should
be fixed in the blink of an eye then, no?


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[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[jsm28 at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #6 from jsm28 at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-12-08 20:29 -------
As I explained in 2003, this is a web problem, not a source code bug, and so
not a regression.  It is a new feature of the manual such that each user of the
manual may need to do something to take advantage of the new feature, and that
applies to the onlinedocs on gcc.gnu.org just as it does to any user of "make
install-html".


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[Bug web/12821] [4.2/4.3/4.4 Regression] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

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[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[steven at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #7 from steven at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-12-08 20:40 -------
Well, I can't even find this paragraph you want to reference.

And I was under the impression that there was a kind-of "you broke it, you fix
it rule" with GCC bugs.  Am I wrong or does this just not apply to you?


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[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Comment #8 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2008-12-08 21:00 -------
Subject: Re:  dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, steven at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> Well, I can't even find this paragraph you want to reference.

The reference is to a whole manual (etc/configure.texi in the src 
repository), not to one paragraph.

> And I was under the impression that there was a kind-of "you broke it, you fix
> it rule" with GCC bugs.  Am I wrong or does this just not apply to you?

There is no such rule beyond the limited reversion rule in develop.html.

As explained, this is a missing website feature, not a GCC bug.  The link 
in the manual is a correct link in the global namespace for Texinfo 
manuals.


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[steven at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #9 from steven at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-12-09 09:00 -------
Something as simple as this would already fix the broken link.

Index: gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi
===================================================================
--- gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi    (revision 142582)
+++ gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi    (working copy)
@@ -93,8 +93,14 @@
 The build system in the top level directory, including how recursion
 into subdirectories works and how building runtime libraries for
 multilibs is handled, is documented in a separate manual, included
-with GNU Binutils.  @xref{Top, , GNU configure and build system,
+with GNU Binutils.
+@c ??? This manual is apparently not available online.  Keep the cross
+@c reference for 'info' but leave it out of HTML pages to avoid broken
+@c links on the web site.
+@ifinfo
+@xref{Top, , GNU configure and build system,
 configure, The GNU configure and build system}, for details.
+@end ifinfo

 @node gcc Directory
 @section The @file{gcc} Subdirectory


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[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Comment #10 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2008-12-09 13:40 -------
Subject: Re:  dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, steven at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> +@c ??? This manual is apparently not available online.  Keep the cross

But it is online - http://www.airs.com/ian/configure/ - and while that's 
not a makeinfo --html copy, when it's only linking to the manual as a 
whole that doesn't matter much (a single redirect in .htaccess should 
suffice - and the fix being such a redirect is why I say this is a web 
problem not a manual problem).

I believe the description of how multilibs are built is still relevant, 
although no-one has updated that manual to reflect toplevel 
autoconfiscation.  If the assignment issues were resolved (that manual has 
a Cygnus copyright notice) then it might make sense to move the multilib 
documentation into the GCC documentation and remove the reference to this 
old manual.


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[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[manu at gcc dot gnu.org]

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--- Comment #13 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-01-21 11:14:43 UTC ---
In fact, the nicest solution would be to investigate how much of Ian's document
is already duplicated in the GNU binutils sources:

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/

and move any GCC-specific parts (e.g., multilibs) directly to the GCC internal
documentation.

Of course, this requires *new people* to do it, it is clearly not a priority
for the existing devs.

[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[manu at gcc dot gnu.org]

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--- Comment #12 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-01-21 11:03:38 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> CLOSE WONTFIX ?

No, there are several possible fixes:

* A patch to .htaccess to redirect to Ian's webpage as suggested in comment #5.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html and
http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#webchanges

* Contact Ian Lance Taylor, figure out the copyright issues to move the manual
to the GCC repository, and if they cannot be solved, create a new manual from
scratch. 

The problem is not that the bug cannot be or is not desired to be solved. The
problem is that no one is not sufficiently interested on solving it to spent
the time and effort required. If you are, please do it!

[Bug web/12821] dead link on onlinedocs/gccint/Top-Level.html

[Joost.VandeVondele at mat dot ethz.ch]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12821

Joost VandeVondele <Joost.VandeVondele at mat dot ethz.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Joost VandeVondele <Joost.VandeVondele at mat dot ethz.ch> 2013-01-21 08:07:20 UTC ---
CLOSE WONTFIX ?