Re: LYNX-DEV RE: Compiling Lynx2.7 with slang on UnixWare

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jason "PsychoSy" Sizemore wrote:
> > I did the stupid thing of using the Lynx 2.6 autoconf file for Lynx 2.7!!
> > 
> > I deleted the whole thing and started over from scratch. Now, the only 
> > trouble I have is when the executable is being created. See below for 
> > yourself...
> 
> Since we've only started the autoconf recently, I'm not sure how
> you have one for Lynx 2.6.  If you got patches from Tom Dickey,
> please post to the list the date of that patch so we can better
> tell what you're doing.
> 
> Have you followed all the steps to creating a "configure" version
> of Lynx?  If you patch the lynx2-7 sources, you definitely need to
> use the "makefile" that configure writes, rather than the "Makefile"
> that comes with the distribution.

I'm sure he's referring to the pseudo-autoconf thingy that's been around
for some time (linked at Subir's page) that sets paths for the binaries in
userdefs.h and a few other small things.

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