Re: PATCH: web/17495

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > This sounds like an interesting suggestion.  It might be a bit tricky
> > due to different versions of GCC having different sets of manuals, and
> > I believe we currently do not have any scripting language (PHP,...) set
> > up on gcc.gnu.org, but perhaps a Perl/Shell script from cron.
> >
> > Joseph, you have been the one doing most work on the online manuals (and
> > a great job, by the way).  Do you have any ideas?
>
> The simplest
> suggestion would be a script or scripts to do some of the releasing steps
> that presently are manual, including updating webpages based on
> pre-existing markers in those pages of where to update.  The search page
> gets automatic monthly updates from a program run from htdigid's crontab
> (not gccadmin's), which might be something to look at to start with,

For reference, here it is, fresh from a "crontab -e".  It's the
last entry. See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html#system> for the
CVS repos (except for the crontab below which isn't in CVS).

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.3251 installed on Mon May 17 09:02:47 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
17 8 1-31/2 * * /bin/sh /sourceware/htdig/gcc/bin/htupdate.sh
17 8 2-30/2 * * /bin/sh /sourceware/libre/infra/bin/htupdate-sourceware.sh
36 10 1 * * /bin/sh /sourceware/libre/infra/bin/munge-cvs-file /cvs/gcc wwwdocs/htdocs/search.html "Monthly update" /sourceware/libre/infra/bin/up-dates

brgds, H-P