Re: downloading GCC documentation

[Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>]

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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