It seems the https transition broke refering to permanently moved URL gcc-3.0/gcc-3.0.html (I get a certificate error or some such), breaking gennews and thus gcc_release. Fixed like below which makes gennews succeed.
Committed to the 4.7 branch. Richard. 2014-06-12 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> * gennews: Use gcc-3.0/index.html. Index: contrib/gennews =================================================================== --- contrib/gennews (revision 211221) +++ contrib/gennews (working copy) @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ files=" gcc-3.3/index.html gcc-3.3/changes.html gcc-3.2/index.html gcc-3.2/changes.html gcc-3.1/index.html gcc-3.1/changes.html - gcc-3.0/gcc-3.0.html gcc-3.0/features.html gcc-3.0/caveats.html + gcc-3.0/index.html gcc-3.0/features.html gcc-3.0/caveats.html gcc-2.95/index.html gcc-2.95/features.html gcc-2.95/caveats.html egcs-1.1/index.html egcs-1.1/features.html egcs-1.1/caveats.html egcs-1.0/index.html egcs-1.0/features.html egcs-1.0/caveats.html"