Re: LYNX-DEV libwww compiler flags

[Foteos Macrides]

Mike Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
>1. Is the file WWW/Library/freebsd/Makefile there is this line:
>CFLAGS += -O -DDEBUG
>Is the + supposed to be there?

        The DEBUG definition determines whether trace messages can be
created.  In the vanilla libwww, that was an issue for server logging.
However, instead of making it a compilation option, it was made a
server configuration file option, and a Lynx switch option (-trace),
and DEBUG was added as a definition via libwww headers, so it shouldn't
matter whether it's also defined in the Makefiles.

        The += in Makefiles may not be portable to all Unix makes.
The BSDI make still needs to be brought into register with the other
makes, and the whole Makefile system for Unix merits attention from
someone familiar with the wide range of Unix compilers and makes which
Lynx seeks to support, but who is that? :) :)

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