Re: LYNX-DEV help: finally!

[Wayne Buttles]

From watching configure on other programs I have the impression that you
can make little test programs.  Could you compile and test a simple
program that looks up localhost and matches it with 127.0.0.1?  Or is that
not good enough?

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > 
> > > is a good enough compromise for now).  For further changes, we should 
> > > have 
> > > a summary of the scenarios we want to support (aka 'requirement'). 
> >  
> > I have no idea when I'll "get my orders", but while I'm still around, I'd 
> > like to put in a plug for getting "$(RESOLVLIB)" defined by configure and 
> > not wait until it is copied over in makefile.in.  It would be less 
> > confusing 
> > if it could be passed as an environment variable to configure and have 
> > configure edit the makefile, than to have to define an environment variable 
> > specifically for make. 
> It'd be nice - but if configure could decide if it's needed that would be
> better. Does anyone have a good description of how to determine if that's
> needed without building Lynx?  I'm left with the impression that there's a
> case where one might be able to build a non-working Lynx & only by trial
> and error determine that -lresolv will cure it.
>   
> > __Henry 
> 
> 
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