On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Georg-Johann Lay wrote: > Trying to document some new options/name spaces, I ran into following > problem with hyperlinking inside the document. > > It's best explained with an example from documentation: > > Start at > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html > > and scroll to the end of the page to section "PowerPC Variable Attributes". > > There is a link to "i386 Variable Attributes" written as @ref{i386 Variable > Attributes} in extend.texi that refers to @anchor{i386 Variable Attributes}. > > This link targets > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/i386-Variable-Attributes.html#i386-Variable-Attributes > a page that does not exists and redirected to > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#i386%20Variable%20Attributes > (%20 is blank) so that it ends up at the page top and not at the intended > target, which was > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#i386-Variable-Attributes > > Actually any link in onlinedocs looks like "page.html#page" and I could not > find a single link that points to an url like "page.html#anchor". > > Is this a bug in makeinfo/texinfo? First I thought my local version is > too old but the documents online show the same: Deep links are broken > and you always start at the top of the page.
Yes, I beieve this is a bug in the version of makeinfo we are using which may be addressed with newer ones. See my analysis in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-12/msg00010.html for some more details. My other fixes today were for things on our side; this one luckily only leads to the deep aspect of deep links not working and looks like it's not our fault. If anyone wants to hack this, maintainer- scripts/update_web_docs_svn could be a place to insert some magic. Gerald
