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

[T.E.Dickey]

> Hello Thomas, 
>  
> The results were the same - only reverse video for links, not bold. 
that's BSD curses - right? - it can't do 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. 
no - it will build and "work", but color combinations won't work properly.
I test-build occasionally against ncurses 1.8.7, 1.9.4, 1.9.9e and 4.x
  
>  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.   
what sort of problems?  (you have to remove config.cache before switching
to a different environment - that's the only problem that people seem to
have with the Lynx configure script).
  
> (This is with both lynx-2.8.tar.gz and lynx2.8.1dev.13.tar.gz) 
> Regards, Dennis Reichel 


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