On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 09:37 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: > > Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 01:28, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > > I've done the move of GCC wwwdocs to git (using the previously > > > > posted and > > > > discussed scripts), including setting up the post-receive hook > > > > to do the > > > > same things previously covered by the old CVS hooks, and > > > > minimal updates > > > > to the web pages dealing with the CVS setup for wwwdocs. > > > > > > Thanks, Joseph. > > > > +1 > > > > I would like to be able to preview changes to the website by using > > it > > from a local > > webserver. I realise that individual pages can be viewed in a > > browser / validated > > by uploading - but it would be nice to check connectivity etc. > > > > At the moment, I can’t identify the “mhc” program that is used in > > preparing the text > > (and too many unrelated hits from searches). > > I think it's the "metahtml" processor: > > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/metahtml/ > > The binary is 20 years old and, somehow, the source code used to > build > it seems to have disappeared.
I wrote a replacement for this: "[PATCH] wwwdocs: port from MetaHTML to a Python 3 script" https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-06/msg00176.html I had it in my mind that this had gone in, but I guess I misremembered. [I'm currently frantically trying to finish a major new feature for GCC stage 1, so my cycles are limited right now, but if someone else wants to finish the patch in the meantime that would be great] Dave