Broken Web links in ghc-6.4 top-level README
Simon Marlow
simonmar at microsoft.com
Wed Apr 6 05:41:54 EDT 2005
On 05 April 2005 18:03, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> Attempting to read the installation instructions from the site
> suggested
> in the README file in the root directory results in "Not Found".
> Specifically, it points to:
>
>
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html
Sorry, that's an old version of the link. I've added a redirect so it
should work now.
> This actually seems to be a general problem -- on the main
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ front page, for example, there is a link
> to the mailing lists:
>
>
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/introduction-ghc
.html#MAILING-LISTS-GHC
>
> that also comes back "Not Found". I eventually found the correct name
> of the mailing list (obviously) but it makes for a bit of a
> frustrating initial experience.
You've probably got an old cached copy of the front page, that link was
updated a few weeks ago (but it's in a server-side include which doesn't
seem to report the modified date properly). See if you can force a
refresh.
Cheers,
Simon
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