Re: LYNX-DEV lynx.cfg & 2-8

[Philip Webb]

980307 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 980307 Philip Webb wrote:
> > at most add something somewhere in  INSTALLATION  to complement the warning
> > to  make clean , but telling folx to remove  config.cache  if necessary.
> well - take a look at my last change to INSTALLATION and see if that looks
> ok (I'm working on ncurses right now while I await feedback on 2.8pre.5):

looks good!

>      NOTE:  Configure has a number of useful options.  Please see below.
> 
> +    NOTE:  The 'configure' script generates auxiliary files "config.status"
> +    "config.cache" and "config.log".  Normally you will not notice these;
> +    they are created automatically and removed by a "make distclean".
> +
> +       + If you wish to rebuild Lynx with a new host, or change ANY of the
> +         parameters which are stored in config.cache, you MUST first remove
> +         the config.cache file before running configure; its options do NOT
> +         override the settings in that file.
> +
> +       + The config.status file is a script which creates (or regenerates)
> +         the files created by the configure script.
> +
> +    Please report problems in the configure/make process by including
> +    a copy of config.status, config.cache and config.log,
> +    as well as the pertinent compiler diagnostics.
> +
>      NOTE:  Lynx is a curses-based application, so you must have a curses

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