Broken link, misplaced manual

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Broken link, misplaced manual

by Jesse Weinstein-2 :: Rate this Message:

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The page: http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/index.html
seems to contain a copy of the Automake manual, although it shouldn't,
as due to it's odd location, various internal links (e.g.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/standards/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets on http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/Clean.html ) break.

http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake correctly redirects to
http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/automake/manual/html_node/ but
the other pages should also, or at least be removed alievate confusion.

Jesse Weinstein



Re: Broken link, misplaced manual

by Karl Berry :: Rate this Message:

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    The page: http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/index.html
    seems to contain a copy of the Automake manual, although it shouldn't,

It's not a copy but a fake ".symlink".  Cross-manual references are a
general problem throughout gnu.org.  Perhaps we'll have a real solution
within a few months, I and others have been working toward it for a
while.  Meanwhile, improving things would mean lots of manual work that
would just have to be undone, so we'll just have to live with it.

Thanks for the report,
Karl