Re: LYNX-DEV Error in compiling ac82

[James Elkinton]

On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, James Elkinton wrote:

> Also, I'm compiling on a machine that has a bad termcap or something, that
> causes all links to be in inverse (ANSI ESC[7m) and only a cursor to each
> link that I arrow over to.  However, this is much better than the one that
> is system installed, which has all links in bold video (ESC[1m) and when you
> select the link, it becomes normal video (ESC[0m), with no cursor in sight!
> VERY difficult on a terminal on which bold and normal are almost
> indistinguishable from each other.  Stupid FreeBSD system. :)  My Linux
> system does it perfectly.  But I gotta use the FreeBSD system for a while,
> so... even though it is rather off-topic, can anyone give me some detailed
> help on what I should scrounge around the net for to try and fix this
> problem?  Saw some general ideas a while back, but it made no sense at the
> time.

Klaus Weide <address@hidden> replied:

>That sounds like configure has determined that the curses implementation
>is only very minimal, and as a result has not defined FANCY_CURSES.
>Check in the generated lynx_cfg.h.  In that case Lynx uses only one kind
>of emphasis (standout() mode).
>
>If this is the case, but the curses lib could in fact support more, then
>Tom should look into it...  He'd probably need your config.log, maybe
>more.
>
>You could start with man infocmp, man -a terminfo (or termcap)...
>
>Maybe <URL:http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/klaus/texts/attrnotes.txt> also helps,
>but it hasn't been updated for 2.7.1 or the development code.

"Thomas E. Dickey" <address@hidden> further replied:

> he's probably compiling with the bsd4.4 curses, which does only that.
> (ncurses should work properly on FreeBSD - I've tested on 2.1.5).

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Ugh... never could figure out the termcap file...
 
I remember waaaay back when nobody made the parameters for a terminal
program that I had just acquired, so I just grabbed termcaps from all over,
extricated the vt entries, and kept plugging stuff in until I found one that
worked perfectly.  Oh well...I guess this problem's a little more
problematic.  And yes, on 'configure', it doesn't find ANY curses stuff at
all... no curses, ncurses, etc.  Do I have to make my own?  (There goes
more space..)  will compiling ncurses or slang in my home dir be
sufficient to tell Lynx what it can do?  (The chances of getting anything
system-installed here are about nil.)  I'll need details of how to do
things properly if so.

Gah...In this stuff I am NOT competent!  Asking me to read man pages is
useless on termcap/terminfo stuff.  Been there, done that, hardcopy even. 

(Heck, there's no infocmp, anyway :) ) 
 
But also, I'm on the lookout for any and all VT10x termcap entries that
people might have... in searching for this, I have occasionally found
tweaked versions that help me immensely to overcome the peculiarities of
system-installed versions.

Thanks 1E6 in advance..
 


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