Re: downloading GCC documentation

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

It's in the source directory as Texinfo; gcc/doc/gccint*.

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:44:38AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> Speaking of documentation, is the source file for gccint.ps available
> somewhere?  I couldn't find it, and the ps file prints all of the page
> numbers off the top of the page.
> 
> phil@ipal.net wrote:
> >It would be nice if there was a link to allowing downloading the full
> >GCC documentation tree as a tar.gz file.  I have looked on the following
> >pages and do not see such a link:
> >
> >  http://gcc.gnu.org/
> >  http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html
> >  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
> >  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/
> >  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.2/ (forbidden, but hey, I tried)
> >  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.2/gcc/
> >  http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html
> >
> >I want to read the documentation while "offline" (literally, while my
> >slow dialup modem is busy downloading the latest of everything, which is
> >usually the case 95% of the time) in my web browser.  Alternatively,
> >"one big HTML file" could work, although I suspect that would be
> >unwieldy for something the scale of GCC.  But I think the tar.gz thing
> >should be readily doable.
> >
> >This would save me having to run wget recursively on the documentation,
> >and rerunning it to be sure a file here or there didn't get missed
> >(generally I figure two passes w/o any change in the downloaded tree
> >means likely success).  But with a tar.gz file, one download and an MD5
> >check should do it.
> >
> >Further, the web server on gcc.gnu.org does not give a Last-modified
> >header, so wget always retrieves each file all over again on each pass.
> >
> >I check the FTP server on the same hostname.  The "pub" area does not
> >seem to have the online docs files (even a recursive download would be
> >better here as the timestamps would be preserved and be usable to avoid
> >redundant downloading).  The "www" area of the FTP server is not the
> >gcc.gnu.org site; it appears to be empty.
> >
> >I am not subscribed to the mailing list.  This is a suggestion for the
> >web site since I have already downloaded the documentation (the hard
> >way).  However, if you have any communications for me about this, feel
> >free to contact me by email.
> >
> 
> 
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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