Re: GCC's manpage refers to sections that aren't in the manpage

2007-05-06 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On 5/6/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > GCC's manpages are mechanically generated from its info files. We > > > asked the FSF how to apply the GFDL and were told that the *entire > > > collection of

Re: GCC's manpage refers to sections that aren't in the manpage

2007-05-06 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 5/6/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GCC's manpages are mechanically generated from its info files. We > asked the FSF how to apply the GFDL and were told that the *entire > collection of manpages* counted as the Work, so it was okay to put the

Re: GCC's manpage refers to sections that aren't in the manpage

2007-05-06 Thread MJ Ray
Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GCC's manpages are mechanically generated from its info files. We > asked the FSF how to apply the GFDL and were told that the *entire > collection of manpages* counted as the Work, so it was okay to put the > Invariant Sections in separate manpages. See

Re: GCC's manpage refers to sections that aren't in the manpage

2007-05-05 Thread Zack Weinberg
MJ Ray wote: [The state of the GCC manpage] probably means that the GCC maintainers have misused the FDL by accident, similar to the GDB maintainers in the past. [...] please research whether the GCC maintainers know that using the FDL for a manpage has problems. Some GNU projects use info fil

Re: GCC's manpage refers to sections that aren't in the manpage

2007-05-03 Thread MJ Ray
Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm rather confused. The GCC maintainers put the manpage in non-free > along with the rest of the GCC docs. The manpage says at the bottom > that it's covered by the GFDL and mentions invariant sections that > aren't in the manpage. Huh? What does this

GCC's manpage refers to sections that aren't in the manpage

2007-05-02 Thread Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso
I'm rather confused. The GCC maintainers put the manpage in non-free along with the rest of the GCC docs. The manpage says at the bottom that it's covered by the GFDL and mentions invariant sections that aren't in the manpage. Huh? What does this mean as far as the location of the manpage and the