From 8b09455e9cc38c741183469b3381b67254472fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 19:30:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * admin/FOR-RELEASE: Add note about linc.py. --- admin/FOR-RELEASE | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE index 0821593955e..53186b21688 100644 --- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE @@ -18,6 +18,20 @@ in the web pages repository. E.g.: Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_mono/automake.html /software/automake/manual/automake.html Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_node/automake/ /software/automake/manual/html_node/ +Another tool you can use to check links is gnu.org's linc.py: +http://www.gnu.org/server/source/ + +You run this something like: + +cd /path/to/cvs/emacs-www +linc.py -o /path/to/output-dir --url http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ . + +Be warned that it is really, really slow (as in, can take ~ a full day +to check the manual/ directory). It is probably best to run it on a +single directory at a time from eg manual/html_node. It is very +inefficient, but may reveal a few things that info-xref does not. + + make emacs.dvi, elisp.dvi, and deal with any errors (undefined references etc) in the output. Break any overfull lines. Underfull hboxes are not serious, but it can be nice to get rid of -- 2.11.4.GIT