Re: lynx-dev comments on "compile time settings"

[dickey]

> Philip Webb wrote: 
>  
> > > Before anything else, download pre.8 (or 9 if Tom gets ahead of you) 
> > -- snip -- 
> >  
> > no, you've misunderstood (and i did make a nice clean build): 
> > the problem arose between 2-8pre.2 -- which was released February 1998 -- 
> > & 2-8-1pre.6 -- a recent enough version of current development: 
> > it's a 2-8 vs 2-8-1 problem, not a problem within recent devt versions. 
> > i can look thro' CHANGES, but people who were working on Options 
> > should be able to locate individual changes more quickly than me. 
>  
> Oh boy ... lots of change, everywhere, between those two versions. 

ugh (lots of change, I agree).  I can make some intermediate versions
available, so we can do a binary-search - that's time-consuming unless
I know what we're looking for.  (I can test Solaris directly, and it
does save .lynxrc)
  
> It would help even more if you could pinpoint which release broke it.  I 
> dunno where you can find a repository of every release since forever... 
> Tom says the patches are available, I'm not sure where.  At least one 
> old intermediate version is still on sol.slcc.edu: 2.8.1dev.16.zip.  You 
> should at least check that one out. 

Since patch-o-matic is not working, each time I do a checkin, I also make
a patch - they're in the current webpage.  I check them by applying the
patch to my working copy at home; much simpler than downloading 1.5M each
time.  When I do a test-build other places I test from the tar ball.
  
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