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Re: Use --with-bugurl value in manuals
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:43:09 -0500
- Subject: Re: Use --with-bugurl value in manuals
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703022113470.7810@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
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.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery