--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/contrib/gennews	Fri Jul 17 14:47:48 2009 +0900
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+#
+# Script to generate the NEWS file from online release notes.
+# Contributed by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# This file is part of GCC.
+#
+# GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with GCC; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+# the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+# Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+website=http://gcc.gnu.org/
+files="
+    gcc-4.4/index.html gcc-4.4/changes.html
+    gcc-4.3/index.html gcc-4.3/changes.html
+    gcc-4.2/index.html gcc-4.2/changes.html
+    gcc-4.1/index.html gcc-4.1/changes.html
+    gcc-4.0/index.html gcc-4.0/changes.html
+    gcc-3.4/index.html gcc-3.4/changes.html
+    gcc-3.3/index.html gcc-3.3/changes.html
+    gcc-3.2/index.html gcc-3.2/changes.html
+    gcc-3.1/index.html gcc-3.1/changes.html
+    gcc-3.0/gcc-3.0.html gcc-3.0/features.html gcc-3.0/caveats.html
+    gcc-2.95/index.html gcc-2.95/features.html gcc-2.95/caveats.html
+    egcs-1.1/index.html egcs-1.1/features.html egcs-1.1/caveats.html
+    egcs-1.0/index.html egcs-1.0/features.html egcs-1.0/caveats.html"
+
+set -e
+
+cat <<EOF
+This file contains information about GCC releases which has been generated
+automatically from the online release notes.  It covers releases of GCC
+(and the former EGCS project) since EGCS 1.0, on the line of development
+that led to GCC 3. For information on GCC 2.8.1 and older releases of GCC 2,
+see ONEWS.
+
+EOF
+
+header="======================================================================"
+
+echo $header
+
+for file in $files; do
+    wfile=$website$file
+    echo $wfile
+    # We lie to Lynx about the kind of terminal in use because we
+    # want to get consistent output everywhere, and we want this
+    # script to work even when it is not run interactively.
+    env TERM=vt100 lynx -dump $wfile
+    echo $header
+done