Re: Links to web pages are broken.

[Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

> Am 10.11.2022 um 17:45 schrieb Georg-Johann Lay <avr@gjlay.de>:
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>> Am 10.11.22 um 16:25 schrieb Jonathan Wakely:
>>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 at 15:23, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 at 15:17, Georg-Johann Lay <avr@gjlay.de> wrote:
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>>>> Am 10.11.22 um 16:05 schrieb Martin Liška:
>>>>> On 11/10/22 15:45, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, I just observed that links like
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
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>>>>>> ceased to work.  Presumably this is to sphinx stuff, but it would be
>>>>>> great if not hundreds of links across the web to GCC pages like the
>>>>>> above would be 404.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I know that the new link is
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configuration.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> but that doesn't help with existing pointers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Deep" links like https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configuration.html#avr
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> won't work either, so all reasonable anchors have been ditched, too?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Johann
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We're working on that and we'll create a redirection:
>>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107610
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for pointing out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Martin
>>>> 
>>>> Ok thanks, I left a note there.
>>> 
>>> The second part of your note about deep links into the new docs is a
>>> completely separate issue. That can't be fixed with HTTP redirects for
>>> the old URLs.
>> And there are still anchors, they're just different:
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configuration.html#cmdoption-with-avrlibc
>> Now there are anchors to every single option, which is much better
>> than it used to be.
> 
> Yes, its nice.  But existing links are still invalidated.  Just take some tutorial that explains how to set up gcc, where you want to provide references that are point-on and not just "gcc.gnu.org".
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> Does this also mean that "deep" links to onlinedocs won't work any more?

How about moving the new docs to
onlinedocs-new/ and simply keeping the old
Doc tree around?  Re-using the old dir looks like a mistake in hindsight?

Richard 

> Johann
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