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Re: LYNX-DEV USE_EXTERNALS
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Jan Hlavacek |
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Re: LYNX-DEV USE_EXTERNALS |
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Mon, 8 Dec 1997 04:26:23 -0500 |
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 05:17:38PM -0500, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone planned on adding a bit more support to the
> USE_EXTERNALS capability of Lynx. Right now it is only compiled in
> if the user hand edits an include file to indicate it - and the
You can allways set the $CFLAGS environment variable before runnig configure,
but it doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere.
> symbol isn't mentioned in userdefs.h, where one normally does that
> type of thing. There doesn't appear to be any mention of the
> variable or the interface in any of the html or man pages. The only
I second this. I learned about existence of externals only when editing
lynx.cfg, and even there there is no mention of the fact that it works only
when lynx is compiled with -DUSE_EXTERNALS. I had to search changes file to
find out. I don't know how many sysadmins are going to do that when
installing lynx on their systems.
I suggest:
1) adding a line or two in lynx.cfg about it, something similar as for
LONG_LIST or EXP_CHARTRANS.
2) add USE_EXTERNALS either into userdefs.h or docs/README.defines. In the
later case, add a line to INSTALLATION about reading the
docs/README.defines before running configure.
3) possibly creating a configure option, something like --enable-externals.
Add something like this in configure.in:
AC_MSG_CHECKING(if EXTERNALs should be used)
AC_ARG_ENABLE(externals, [ --enable-externals enable use of EXTERNAL
command in lynx.cfg], [AC_DEFINE(USE_EXTERNALS)])
AC_MSG_RESULT($enableval)
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