Re: LYNX-DEV lynx 2.7.1 compile errors

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Adam Lloyd wrote:

[ ... ] 
> I've tried to compile it a number of times.
> 
> I have had no luck so far.
> 
> I've used parts of userdefs.h and placed various things into the 2.7.1 
> userdefs.
> 
> Also we have usr/5bin/cc and gcc
> 
> I've tried both none seem to work.
> 
> perhaps some can help!
> 
> here's a a make sun4 using gcc
> 
> "Makefile", line 276: Warning: Malformed conditional (you are compiling 
> on a previously unsupported system, modify)
> "Makefile", line 303: Warning: Malformed conditional (you are linking to 
> freeWAIS-0.202 or older, you should define this)
> "Makefile", line 308: Warning: Malformed conditional (you have the 
> reverse clear screen problem of some SUN4 systems you)
[ etc. ]

These and other lines in the 2.7.1 Makefile all start with the characters
"# if ".  Apparently your make is trying to interpret those as
preprocessing directives.  So you should use a make which doesn't do
that :).

   Klaus

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