Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1] why no bold links?

[Tim Benham]

Pauzner writes:
>6-Mar-99 07:16 address@hidden wrote:
>>>
>>> I just "upgraded" from 2.7.1 to 2.8.1 and was horrified to find that
>>> links are no longer displayed in bold, instead they display in reverse
>>> video (and the currently selected link is basically
>>> indistinguishable).

...

>> try reconfiguring (make distclean) and rebuilding.  (I don't recall if
>> 1.9.6 will configure properly for the bold/underline stuff; since colors
>> do not work properly before 1.9.9g with lynx, I've not spent a lot of
>> time tuning it - I test-build occasionally against 1.9.4 and 1.9.9e).

This advice wasn't so safe. "make distclean" removed userdefs.h and
configure refused to run. Fortunately I had made a backup of my
modified version. I reconfigured, recompiled as before and - surprise
surprise -- it works! This seems weird to me since the only thing I
did the first time was modify userdefs.h and the second time I used
the identical file.

I suspect the distribution wasn't clean when I got it.

For some variety I tried configuring it to use slang instead of
ncurses and this is what I got...

address@hidden lynx2-8-1]# ./configure --with-screen=slang --enable-persistent-c
ookies 
[ yadda yadda yadda ]
checking for -lslang in /usr/lib... no
checking for -lslang in /usr/lib/slang... no
configure: error: Cannot link slang library
address@hidden lynx2-8-1]# ls -l /usr/lib/libslang*
 189 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       191930 Feb 27  1996 /usr/lib/libslang.a*
   0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           19 Sep 12  1997 
/usr/lib/libslang.so -> libslang.so.0.99.24*
   0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           19 Sep 12  1997 
/usr/lib/libslang.so.0 -> libslang.so.0.99.24*
 153 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       155448 Feb 27  1996 
/usr/lib/libslang.so.0.99.24*

Huh?


Thanks for your advice guys.

Tim