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Re: Use --with-bugurl value in manuals


On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:21:15PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> This patch makes --with-bugurl control the bug reporting URL in the 
> Texinfo manuals as well as that in --help output.  OK to commit?
> 
> In the default case the manuals will now refer to the Bugzilla database 
> URL rather than giving the bug-binutils email address.  I think this is a 
> good thing.  Some obsolete text about sending large files by email 
> (suggesting uuencode for binaries, so predating MIME, and anon FTP, so 
> predating the Web) is removed, since with a bug database URL users will be 
> attaching files to the bugs in the database instead.
> 
> Note: the gprof manual does not have a section on reporting bugs, so there 
> are no gprof directory changes here.

Let's move your discussion with HJ forward a little more
productively...

This patch is OK.  Then we can commonize it afterwards.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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