Leo Famulari <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:41:04PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote: >> The manual page >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Requirements.html#Requirements >> >> contains a link to >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/gnutls-guile/Guile-Preparations.html#Guile-Preparations >> >> which give a 404. I am not familiar with what's supposed to be there, a >> quick search for "gnutls-guile/Guile-Preparations.html" in duckduckgo gives >> me >> http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls-guile/Guile-Preparations.html as one >> of 2 results. >> >> Should I fix the link to this one and send in a patch? > > Yes, please!
So you think I should (and can?) fix it, while alex replies: >> I don't think you can send a patch for this. According to >> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/>: >> >> (This page generated by the gendocs.sh¹ script.) >> This "gendocs.sh" uses "texi2html" to convert our texinfo documentation >> (see "doc/guix.texi" in the guix git repo) to the html page. In >> "guix.texi" the link you are talking about is a usual link to the >> "gnutls-guile" manual. I didn't look at "texi2html" but I believe by >> default it just assumes that all the manuals are placed at >> "www.gnu.org/software/<package>/manual/", so for "external" manuals the >> generated links are false. For example, there are also wrong links to >> Geiser and Magit-Popup manuals. >> >> So I think it's a general thing for all generated manuals that are >> placed on "gnu.org". >> >> ¹ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/build-aux/gendocs.sh >> >> -- >> Alex Okay, so I guess it's related to #22651 and it#s not fixable the way I want to (edit the source), or at least what I would want to do is not optimal and it should be fixed in some other way. Didn't look into it yet, but should we follow #22651 for the 404s? -- ng
