Re: LYNX-DEV weird crashes

[Foteos Macrides]

address@hidden (Larry W. Virden, x2487) wrote:
>And just to reassure Fote, I _hope_ I learned my lesson over expecting Lynx's
>Makefile to work like most some time ago.  I try my best to remember to
>do a make clean before I do a compile; I surely hope that with the development
>code in progress this becomes unnecessary and that all lynx dependencies are
>generated.  [...]

        Perhaps, but much of the code has chains of headers being
included via headers, and unless that's all unravelled, you could
easily get tripped up by a header change.

>That way, one can apply diffs or module replacements and only
>have to recompile the necessary pieces.  It would be nice not to have
>to wait for all of lynx to compile after every patch or update.

        Well, if you note that no header has changed, you could
avoid the  make clean  step.

                                Fote

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