Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx startup message

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 2018-04-15, at 04:35:56, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> When I run /usr/bin/lynx or just type lynx to run lynx at command prompt that 
> strange message comes up either way.  Now when I run:
> file /usr/bin/lynx
> /usr/bin/lynx: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), 
> dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 
> 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=5e21e28486e33341613cecfe484143b263c95040, stripped
> 
> The other application I have on the system that uses lynx heavily is surfraw 
> but how surfraw can be running a shell script in run instances described 
> above I do not know.  The hardware is an amd K8 Athelon built back I think in 
> 1994.
>  
Also,
What does "ls -l /usr/bin/lynx" say?
What does "uname -a" say?
Is it possible the message is coming from a system() call within lynx?

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, David Woolley wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 05:43:35
>> From: David Woolley
>>> sh: line 0: test: .: binary operator expected
>>> 
>>> On archlinux why does this happen with lynx and lynx-cur?
>>> Is lynx not yet configured correctly or is this a compile error?
>>> Is this message a warning or an error?
>>> I'm using UTF-8 if that helps any system-wide.
>> 
>> This message isn't coming from Lynx.  It is coming from a shell script.

-- gil