docs/74477: [patch] Correct several links in the contributing article

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Sun Nov 28 17:10:34 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/74477; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: Joel Dahl <joel at automatvapen.se>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/74477: [patch] Correct several links in the contributing article
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:08:12 +0000

 On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:11:42PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote:
 
 > Fix five dead links:
 > - 1-4: &url.base;{place} points to /usr/share/{place} on my machine, which
 >        results in dead links.
 
 > @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
 >  	<listitem>
 >  	  <para>Get copies of formal standards like &posix;.  You can
 >  	    get some links about these standards at the <ulink
 > -	    url="&url.base;/projects/c99/index.html">FreeBSD
 > +	    url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/c99/index.html">FreeBSD
 >  	    C99 & POSIX Standards Conformance Project</ulink> web
 >  	    site. Compare FreeBSD's behavior to that required by the
 >  	    standard. If the behavior differs, particularly in subtle
 
 Hmm.  This is not right.  There should be a better way to specify that a
 url is part of the web build and will not be present locally when the
 docs are built.  Perhaps we can make URLS_ABSOLUTE=yes the default and
 override it during a web build?
 
 > - 5:   index.html should be article.html.
 
 Why?
 
 Ceri
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