Re: LYNX-DEV problems compiling lynx2.7ac-0.38

[T.E.Dickey]

> > > Re: lynx2.7ac-0.38.  I'm on sunos4.1.3, compiling with gcc2.7.2.
> > > 
> > > The configure script stopped with an error when it could not find
> > > the slang header file.  No makefile was produced.  How do you specify
> > > where header files are when doing --with-screen=slang?
> > if they're not in /usr/include or /usr/local/include, I'd set environment
> > variables (this, btw, applies to all scripts based on autoconf):
I'm aware of this (now that I'm working on the second pass, I can start
looking into these corners): the configure script is currently not checking
(in effect) that you've overridden $LIBS before going off to test for some
of the library combinations.

(I was hoping to work on these - but it appears that I'm going to have to
go back a step and troubleshoot the color-curses code).

> >     CPPFLAGS="-I/bogus/include" \
> >     LIBS="-L/bogus" \
> >     configure --with-screen=slang
> 
> I'm on bsdi...
> I tried
>       CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/slang/include" \
>       LIBS="-L$HOME/slang/lib" \
>       configure --with-screen=slang
> and it still failed:
> > ...
> > checking for slang header file... configure: error: not found

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Thomas E. Dickey
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