[Bug c/65231] New: Dead link in man page to the status of C99 features

[Bug c/65231] New: Dead link in man page to the status of C99 features

[humbug at deeptown dot org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65231

            Bug ID: 65231
           Summary: Dead link in man page to the status of C99 features
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.8.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: humbug at deeptown dot org

In man page c99-gcc.1.gz there is a dead link to
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/c99status.html


$ zgrep c99status /usr/share/man/man1/c99-gcc.1.gz
.I http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/c99status.html

$ curl --fail http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/c99status.html
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found


Script to check for other dead links:

$ find /usr/share/man -name "*g[+c][+c]*" -exec zgrep -Ho "http://.*.html" "{}"
\; | xargs -P4 -I{} bash -c 'IFS=":" read file url <<< "{}"; request=`curl -m3 
-LfgsS --head "$url" 2>&1` || echo url: "\"$url\"" in: "\"$file\"" error:
"\"$request\"" '


Version info:

$ dpkg -S c99-gcc.1.gz
gcc: /usr/share/man/man1/c99-gcc.1.gz

$ aptitude show gcc
Version: 4:4.8.2-1ubuntu6

$ c99 -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls
--with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug
--enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libmudflap
--enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin
--enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --enable-java-home
--with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64
--with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64
--with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
--enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686
--with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu
--target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)

[Bug web/65231] Dead link in man page to the status of C99 features

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65231

Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2015-02-27
          Component|c                           |web
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
Someone needs to add the redirect from
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/c99status.html to http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
.
Most likely http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/c99status.html might need one too.

[Bug c/65231] Dead link in man page to the status of C99 features

[humbug at deeptown dot org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65231

Roman Proskuryakov <humbug at deeptown dot org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Keywords|                            |documentation
           Severity|normal                      |trivial

[Bug web/65231] Dead link in man page to the status of C99 features

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65231

--- Comment #2 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> ---
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:

> Someone needs to add the redirect from
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/c99status.html to http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
> .
> Most likely http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/c99status.html might need one too.

No, they are not needed.  The 4.8 branch manual does not contain a 
reference to gcc-4.8/c99status.html, which never existed; the redirects 
are only relevant where the release branch in question has/had such a 
reference before the c99status.html pages were unified.  I don't know 
where the incorrect reference in the manpage referred to came from.