http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gdb/ down

[Jonny Grant]

Hi Simon

On 26/05/2020 15:17, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2020-05-26 7:07 a.m., Jonny Grant wrote:
>> Hi GDB maintainers
>>
>> Just wondering if this is down for you as well
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/mailing-lists/
>>
>> I clicked "bug-gdb"
>>
>>
>> This site can’t be reached mail.gnu.org refused to connect.
>> Try:
>>
>> Checking the connection
>> Checking the proxy and the firewall
>> ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
> 
> Maybe it was temporary, the GNU mailing list page works for me right now.

Unfortunately it is still down for me from laptop and android mobile.


> However, there has been no activity there for many years, I think we should
> either remove it from our page, or at least mention that it's there for
> archive purposes only.

Sounds reasonable. I didn't receive a reply from the gnu webmasters, maybe they are overloaded with lockdown.

>> I was going to ask if gdb@sourceware.org could be added to the $ gdb --help output and also the man page?
> 
> Yes, I think it would be nice.  Would you mind providing patches for that?

I've attached a patch for the 'gdb --help' output


>> Also this page
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/
> 
> This is generated from the gdb.texinfo file in the GDB source code, so you
> could provide a patch for this as well:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo;h=641816284954a492d6079560b9e6ab8312efa159;hb=HEAD
> 
> You can generate the HTML manual using the "make html" command in the gdb/doc
> build directory.

Could the scripts that need 'html' command make a suggestion to install texinfo html convertor package 'texi2html' ?


Otherwise it's this error:

html  -I . ./annotate.texinfo
/bin/bash: html: command not found


>> BTW, the footer has a link "Previous: (dir)" and "Up: (dir)" is a broken link to
>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/dir/index.html
>>
>> Could someone fix that link, or should I file a bug report on sourceware?
> 
> Hmm, we would have to find out if it's a texinfo bug, or just us using texinfo wrong.
> 
> Again, you can generate this file using the "make html" command mentioned above and
> try to find out why.

Yes, it is the same in the html created.
I've attached a patch that removes those broken links.

Cheers, Jonny

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