Broken Web links in ghc-6.4 top-level README

[Andy Dougherty]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Simon Marlow wrote:

> 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.

Thank you.

>> 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.

Thanks again.  It's not cached on my system, but I suppose it might be 
cached somewhere upstream of me.  Oh well, it's no big deal.

-- 
     Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu