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

[dickey]

> 
> 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 
that's not supposed to happen.

> 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. 

I suspect so (please download a fresh copy).
  
> 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 

look in config.log

> 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 


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