Re: lynx-dev Patches questions

[T.E.Dickey]

> Are the patches cumulative?  I get the following: 

no - so far we're discussing different versions of the same patch.  For
situations like this, it's better to have just one small patch rather than
three.

-- though it would be nice if Lynx showed the unreadable files' permissions...
  
>     Forbidden; Your client is not allowed to access the requested object. 
>  
> when I attempt to access either of: 
>     
>     http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-2/patches/lynx2.8.2rel.1-fix.patch.gz 
>     
> http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-2/patches/lynx2.8.2rel.1-fix2.patch.gz 
>  
> Is this is because fix3 incorporates and supersedes fix2 and fix, or is this 
> a problem? 
>  
> And when I apply and build with the two later patches, I get the following 
> startling difference in executable sizes: 

That is odd - my recollection of the changes involved is that they should
make very little difference in the executable size.  Perhaps one was
optimized, and the other not?
  
> nyx10: ls -al */*/*lynx 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 pgilmart  1196032 Sep  6 09:03 lynx2-8-2rel.1/bin/lynx 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 pgilmart  1531904 Aug 14 23:18 lynx2-8-2rel.1/bin/oldlynx 
> nyx10: uname -a 
> SunOS nyx10 4.1.4 2 sun4m 
>  
> The attributes seem similar? 
>  
> lynx:           sparc demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped 
> oldlynx:        sparc demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped 
>  
> I'm confused, 
> gil 
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