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Re: NEWS link for gas
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> > > Overseers, any idea why:
> > > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/gas/NEWS?only_with_tag=binutils-2_15&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src
> > >
> > > returns a server error?
> >
> > Because it should be this:
> >
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~src/gas/NEWS?only_with_tag=binutils-2_15&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src
> >
> > Dunno why the cvsweb download link is broken.
>
> Actually, I'm not sure that link is right either, although it does
> work. Perhaps cvsweb.cgi should be removing the '/' in
> "/src/gas/NEWS" before it calls CVS.
>
> It appears that CVS did change to detect this case:
>
> 2003-11-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
>
> * modules.c (do_module): Reject absolute paths.
> (Report and suggested fix from Tony Hoyle <tmh@nodomain.org>.)
OK, I did a quick patch to cvsweb.cgi to make this work again. Your
original URL should also now work, and is probably the right one to
use.
I suppose that we should update cvsweb.cgi at some point. There are
certainly newer versions out there.
Ian