Re: NEWS link for gas

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:57:29AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Matt Davis <deadsmith@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
> 
> > the NEWS link for gas near the top of the page gave me a CVS error.
> 
> It would best if the CVS revisions were not hardwired in the web page,
> but if the revision tag for the current release were used instead.
> Something like:
> 
> --- index.html~	2004-05-21 10:51:26.000000000 +1000
> +++ index.html	2004-05-21 10:55:43.000000000 +1000
> @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@
>  
>  <P>
>  The latest release of GNU binutils is 2.15.  The various NEWS files
> -(<A href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/binutils/NEWS?rev=1.42&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src";>binutils</A>,
> - <A href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gas/NEWS?rev=1.40.6.2&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src";>gas</A>, and
> - <A href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/ld/NEWS?rev=1.55.6.1&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src";>ld</A>)
> +(<A href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/binutils/NEWS?only_with_tag=binutils-2_15&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src";>binutils</A>,
> + <A href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gas/NEWS?only_with_tag=binutils-2_15&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src";>gas</A>, and
> + <A href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/ld/NEWS?only_with_tag=binutils-2_15&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src";>ld</A>)
>  have details of what has changed in this release.

Unfortunately, if this ever worker before, it doesn't work now.  I had
to revert to using revision numbers for 2.16.  The failure mode may not
have been obvious; it works, but you get HEAD's NEWS instead.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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