Re: [Lynx-dev] Configuration supporting libidn broken [PATCH]

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> Since IDNA support is the default in the lynx configuration, I built
> libidn for mingw (under Cygwin), but found that the lynx configuration
> script doesn't pick it up because of unresolved dependencies. My

I didn't notice a problem (it works with all of my own configurations).
Will check/etc - thanks

> libidn.a file has dependencies on both libintl and on libiconv. The
> attached patch is a partial fix for this, making minimal changes in
> the current configuration. It adds libiconv in CF_WITH_IDNA and
> changes the link order of libraries in src/makefile so that libintl
> and libiconv come after libidn. I don't think this will work properly,
> however, if someone tries to configure for libidn on a system where
> it has dependencies, but configures lynx without NLS. In that case
> INTLLIB may not be defined. It is easy to add 'LIBS="$LIBS $LIBICONV"'
> in CF_WITH_IDNA, to ensure the presence of libiconv, but I don't see
> an easy way to ensure the presence of libintl if lynx is configured
> without NLS. The libtool file libidna.la specifies the dependencies,
> but I didn't see how to use that information when we aren't using
> libtool in the compilation.
>
> Doug
>
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> Doug Kaufman
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