Re: LYNX-DEV scrollok and lynx_force_repaint

[Foteos Macrides]

"T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden> wrote:
>I encountered this on AIX, investigated & found it was due (on that
>system) to an incorrectly ifdef'd partial definition for <stdarg.h>
>which was embedded in <stdio.h> - a similar problem was reported for
>Ultrix.  If this is the case for OSF/1, then editing system headers is
>the only way to fix it.

and "John E. Davis" <address@hidden> wrote:
>   I assume that va_start is defined when stdarg.h is included in
>slang.h.  However, that should only define it once which means that
>stdarg.h file is being included from somewhere else and it is not
>protected against multiple includes.  There may be nothing that can be
>done about if short of editing the system headers if the if the system
>headers are at fault.

        Good news!  This simple mod in LYCurses.h appears to have done
the trick:

[...]
#ifdef va_start
#undef va_start
#endif /* va_start */
#include <slang.h>
[...]


        Now non-privileged users on those platforms can build Lynx
for themselves without worrying that it might blow up. :)

                                Fote

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