Re: LYNX-DEV problem compiling 2-8 on Irix 5.3

[T.E.Dickey]

> this is on an SGI machine running Irix 5.3.
we had a 5.3 box a while ago; it's close enough to 5.2 that I saw no
difference (we're running 5.2 and 6.2).
 
> i downloaded 2-8pre, read the installation file carefully,
> edited  userdefs.h  &  lynx.cfg  carefully, comparing ditto for 2-7.
> 
> then i tried (1)  ./configure , which ran for  c 20 mins ,
> continually asking me "File conftest.foo : remove yes/no[no]",
> to which i answered (knowing nothing of what was expected)
Well, that is not expected behavior.  It sounds like there is something
fundamentally amiss in the environment.  I would start with the 'remove'
message above:  there should be nothing which does that, unless you have a
modified 'rm' command in your path (though /bin/rm is reasonably standard,
some systems may/may not have it like that -- so 'rm' is just in the path). 
You should (unless you are certain that you have no conflicts of this type)
have /bin and /usr/bin ahead of other things (such as $HOME/bin).

(Besides a conflicting 'rm', there is the possiblity of a /bin/sh linked
to /bin/csh, but I think we should ignore that -- it would break too many
things).

> with the default no (ie  Enter ), except for one point at which it got stuck
> repeating alternately "conftest.vals: remove?" "conftest.vals: overwrite?",
> which i finally ended with  ^c .
> when it all ended, i tried  make  (as instructed) with no result:
> no doubt because there was no  Makefile  in the directory.
if it had succeeded, there would be a 'makefile'.
 
> so then i tried (2) the manual method, editing  Makefile.old  carefully,
> then moving it to the main directory (renamed  Makefile ).
> i entered  make sgi , which started working,
> getting as far as the line  HTAccess.o ...  , then announced an error:
>  cfe: Error: ../../Library/Implementation/HTAccess.c: 50:
>   Cannot open file HTML.e[truncated]
>  [ditto]: 61: [ditto] GridTe[truncated]
>  Error code 1.
well, yes - I have not touched that Makefile.old since last summer.

(I could probably make it work with 2-3 hours of tinkering, but don't want
or need to - there was that fellow who offered to guarantee he'd support it
for five years).
 
> i'm just a user, not the sysadmin, but the system is generally well managed,
> so things should be where they are supposed to be.
> i had no problem compiling 2-7 a year ago.
> i hope i didn't make some simple editing error.
> 
> anyone offer any help on (1) or (2)? 
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