Re: lynx-dev patch to spawn extra lynx's

[Webmaster Jim]

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:15:56PM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> > I've almost finished a patch to allow a middle-click to spawn an extra 
> > lynx in a new xterm, as with netscape and mozilla. This is the last 
> [...]
> > The first burning question is making the patch.  Right now I'm coding 
> > against the debian source for 2.8.1.  I cp -a 'd this directory,  so 
> [...]
> Newer versions' makefile has a target lynx.patch.  If your lynx tree
> you have mangled is in somewhere/lynx2-8-3/ it assumes a copy of
> the original source exists unpacked in somewhere/orig/lynx2-8-3/
> (or equivalent for other version numbers).  I don't know whether that
> is already in the 2.8.1 makefile.
> 
> So you would set up the directories that way, then within
> somewhere/lynx2-8-3/ type "make lynx.patch", then the file lynx.patch
> in the parent directory should contain the diff (not gzipped).

For the record, this is a FAQ "how to patch Lynx":

http://www.slcc.edu/cgi-bin/lynx/fom?file=107

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Marvin the Paranoid Android says:
You realise this is going to be a complete waste of time don't you?