Re: [Lynx-dev] [Patch] Lynx won't compile against zlib 1.2.5.1

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Trying to build Lynx with zlib 1.2.5.1 results in build errors, due to the 
> 'ON' macro of zlib, which conflicts with the one in LYUtils.h. Here's a bug 
> report about it on Gentoo's tracker:
>
>  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383113
>
> A patch that fixes the problem by renaming Lynx's ON and OFF macros to LON 
> and LOFF:
>
>  https://383113.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=286575

ON/OFF are on the other hand unnecessary in lynx altogether - making them
TRUE/FALSE would be simpler (similar to BOOL vs BOOLEAN, but different
since the latter are typed).

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