Re: lynx-dev Crash with new Lynx trying to get to Print Options screen

[dickey]

> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 address@hidden wrote: 
> >> I'm getting a crash running   
> >> Lynx Version 2.8.1rel.2 (1998)  
> >>   
> >> I'm running on   
> >> SunOS vax 5.6 sun4u sparc  
> > 
> >I took a look this morning, and it seems that the problem is most likely 
> >buffer overflow (I got a suggested download filename that was 309 
> >characters). 
> >Most of those problems should have gone away in the development version - 
> >but 
> >not this one yet (I haven't gotten there). 
>  
> Ok, stupid question on my part -- do you mean development version as in 
> code only on *your computer*?  I get that impression from the "I haven't 
> gotten 

no: development version as in "lynx-2.8.2dev.12".

> there"..  I am not the one who compiles lynx here.  Heck, I should spend 
> a few hours trying to get it to build sometime so I know I can always have  
> an up to date version...  I copied the source directory from the guy  
> who did compile it to my own directory, but it's running into an error: 
>  
>  
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mattack/lynx2-8-1/WWW/Library/unix' 
> Passwd.o ../../Library/unix/HTGroup.o ../../Library/unix/HTACL.o    
> ../../Librar 
> y/unix/HTAuth.o   ../../Library/unix/HTAAProt.o ../../Library/unix/HTAssoc.o  
> .. 
> /../Library/unix/HTLex.o    ../../Library/unix/HTUU.o 
> ../../Library/unix/HTDOS.o 
> make[1]: execvp: ar: Permission denied 

is that because 'ar' cannot write the file, or because you're on some
machine w/o a copy of 'ar'?

> make[1]: *** [../../Library/unix/libwww.a] Error 127 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mattack/lynx2-8-1/WWW/Library/unix' 
> make: *** [all] Error 2 


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