Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx 2.8.1rel.2: saving gives Permission denied

[dickey]

> 
> address@hidden (me :-)) writes: 
>  
> >I've recently compiled lynx 2.8.1rel2 on RedHat Linux 5.2. Everything 
> >seems to work fine except for one thing: 
> >when I download a file (hitting d) and try to save it's not saved. On 
> >stderror I get 
> >sh: /tmp/L464-3TMP.html: Permission denied 
>  
> >L464-3TMP.html being just an example. The temporary file L464-3TMP.html 
> >has been created in /tmp with permissions -rw------- and ownership of the 
> >person that is running lynx. It fails even when it's run by root. 
> >Any ideas what could be at fault here? 
>  
> I've further investigated it, and it looks like this problem occurs when 
> configuring lynx with  --disable-full-paths. 

thanks (will check)
  
> As an unrelated extra observation, the --libdir= and --includedir= config 
> options seem to be ignored. 
> My slang libs are in /usr/local/lib, and they are not found during the 
> final linking of the binary (they ought to be even without --libdir=, 
> since configure finds and uses it). 

--libdir is never used for finding libraries to build _with_, but only for
specifying a potential location for installing _into_.
  
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