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bug#9872: hello project web page includes libc and autotools manuals?
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Mike Frysinger |
Subject: |
bug#9872: hello project web page includes libc and autotools manuals? |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:46:42 -0500 |
On 17 Jan 2024 14:55, Karl Berry wrote:
> from what i can tell, there's no action required for libtool here ?
>
> Only if you want to get rid of your symlinks.
i don't think it costs us anything, so i'm not really worried
> we aren't including any manuals in the libtool site. those URIs work
> because we've setup syminks, not because we copied content over.
>
> Texinfo has supported cross-manual references "correctly" for a decade
> now (version 5.0, ca.2013). The control file is named htmlxref.cnf
> (should already be in any Texinfo installation).
>
> I don't think you have to do anything special; the cross-manual xrefs
> should just come out referring to the manuals on their own project page.
> The implementation is described here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#HTML-Xref
i guess it's a question of, have all the broken manuals been regenerated, and
do we care if older local archives are broken ? what about older versions of
manuals too ?
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/index-full.html
> We never implemented links for PDFs, though, which I see you're making
> symlinks for. Is that so if someone clicks on a link in libtool.pdf
> (reading online) which goes to emacs.pdf, it works? That is not a case
> that was relevant in the past, but I imagine it could be added (not by me).
not sure why the links are there, but they were added explicitly:
revision 1.2
date: 2011-01-29 05:59:55 -0500; author: rwild; state: Exp; lines: +6 -3;
commitid: AjTk1baMH0tAo96v;
* manual/.symlinks: Reorder symlinks. Add links to PDF versions
of other manuals.
Prompted by report from Jim Warhol against Autoconf.
-mike
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