Re: lynx-dev Linux/ncurses/Lynx 2.8 no-bold links

[Thomas Gandy]

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Dennis Reichel wrote:

> > > This included email describes a problem that I and at least 
> > > one other person have had.  I built the lynx with as many default 
> > > options as possible.  Does anyone have a solution? 
> > >  
> > > Thanks, Dennis Reichel 
> >     configure --with-screen=ncurses
> > 
> > -- 
> > Thomas E. Dickey
> > address@hidden
> > http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
> 
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> The results were the same - only reverse video for links, not bold.
> 
> I did try configure with that option, but the script appears not to honor it.
> Also, as a diagnostic, I try configure --with-screen=FOO, and the resulting 
> files created are identical to those created --with-screen=ncurses
> 
> I tried wading through the configure script, but it's not very clear to me
> what's happening.  I have tentatively concluded that since configure believes
> there is only an older version of ncurses, the --with-screen directives are
> ignored altogether.
> 
> checking for screen type... (cached) curses
> checking for initscr... (cached) no
> checking for tgoto... (cached) no
> checking for tgoto in -ltermcap... (cached) yes
> checking for initscr in -lcursesX... (cached) no
> checking for initscr in -lcurses... (cached) yes
> checking if we need both curses and termcap libraries... no
> checking for curses performance tradeoff... (cached) no
> checking for location of config-file... /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> 
> [... many lines omitted ...]
> 
> checking if curses supports alternate-character set... (cached) no
> checking if curses supports fancy attributes... (cached) no
> checking for ncurses version... (cached) 1.9.9e
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> checking for obsolete/broken version of ncurses... (cached) yes
> configure: warning: hmm... you should get an up-to-date version of ncurses
> 
>  gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2/specs
> gcc version 2.7.2
> 
> I have installed ncurses version 4.2, but am aparently unable to
> build lynx using these new libraries.  
> 
> (This is with both lynx-2.8.tar.gz and lynx2.8.1dev.13.tar.gz)
> 
> 
> Regards, Dennis Reichel
> 

It appears to me that the above problem accurred because u still have a
cache file from a frist configure.

try rrmoving the config.cache file from the top-level of the src
directory.


Thomas Gandy

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