lynx-dev FWD: Problems on alpha port

[Webmaster Jim]

Attached is a Lynx bug report I got via a NetBSD list.  Not sure
which version this applies to...

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Marvin the Paranoid Android.
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> Problems on alpha port
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> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:35:04 -0700
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> I am helping a friend set-up NetBSD 1.3.2 on alpha.  He encountered
> some problems.  Not sure if they are alpha-specific or not.
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> a. Couldn't link lynx.  The failure occurred because it couldn't
>    find some curses symbols (scrollok, clearok and others).  It
>    appeared that some symbols were just missing from the shared
>    library version of libcurses because when I did static linking
>    it worked just fine.
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> b. top doesn't work.  To quote my friend ...
>    > From what I can figure out, it used to work with NetBSD 1.2,
>    > but the memory structures changed in 1.3, and it hasn't been
>    > fixed.
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>    I do not use top, so I really can't comment.
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> Thanks for any help you can provide.
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> alan
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