Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] How can users report bugs

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

> Sigh. Of course *I* know this. But:
>
> a) there is no pointer on how to report bugs on mingw.org
> b) the bug reporting page on SF *requires* someone to have
>    an SF account to report a bug, although this is not a
>    SF requirement. (maybe it is to discourage a lot of beginner
>    type of 'bug' reports, but is is also a *huge* block. In practice
>    I only get bug reports on GNAT on Ada mailing lists, comp.lang.ada
>    and direct email.)


Okay gcc -v --help prints this at the end of its output:

For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html>

This can be changed, and in fact mingw is supposed to
(from gcc/version.c):

/* This is the location of the online document giving instructions for
   reporting bugs.  If you distribute a modified version of GCC,
   please change this to refer to a document giving instructions for
   reporting bugs to you, not us.  (You are of course welcome to
   forward us bugs reported to you, if you determine that they are
   not bugs in your modifications.)  */

const char bug_report_url[] =
"<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html>";

I'm not sure but that string might also get put into info files.

Should we modify this built-in bug report url for mingw-gcc(3.3) to the
SF page, or to a friendlier page at mingw.org that links to gcc,
binutils, etc, as well as the SF page?

Danny