Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx Installation

[T.E.Dickey]

> If this is not the right place for an enquiry about the problem enquired
> by me while installing Lynx on HPUX 10.10 machine, Please forward this
> mail to the right place it is to be done.
> 
> I wanted to use the latest version of Lynx.
> I tried to retrieve it from <http://www.wfbr.edu/dir/lynx> which
> I couldn't get.
> 
> I am trying to install Lynx version 2.6 on HPUX 10.10
> 
> I used "make snake3" and it gave and error in libwww.a.
> Please give a guidance in the installation.
did you first clean away the old binaries (if so, then this could be
a problem with the 'make' utility - otherwise I would assume you have
a libwww.a that the system doesn't recognize).

> 
> The message and the error I got while on process, I am enclosing herewith.
> 
> The message during compilation
> ===============================
> 
> 
>       cd WWW/Library/snake; make CC="cc" LYFLAGS="-DDIRED_SUPPORT -DLONG_LIST 
> "
> `../../Library/snake/libwww.a' is up to date.
here's the problem.

>       cd /home/gijoy/lynx2-6/src; make all CC="cc" MCFLAGS="-O -Ae 
> -DFANCY_CURSES -DUNIX \
>               -DSNAKE -I../WWW/Library/Implementation -DDIRED_SUPPORT  
> -DOK_TAR -DOK_ZIP -DOK_GZIP -DOK_UUDECODE -DOK_OVERRIDE -DOK_PERMIT " \
>               LIBS="-lc -lHcurses -ltermcap \
>                 " \
>               WWWLIB="../WWW/Library/snake/libwww.a"
> Compiling Lynx sources
> Linking and creating Lynx executable
>       cc -O -Ae -DFANCY_CURSES -DUNIX         -DSNAKE 
> -I../WWW/Library/Implementation -DDIRED_SUPPORT  -DOK_TAR -DOK_ZIP -DOK_GZIP 
> -DOK_UUDECODE -DOK_OVERRIDE -DOK_PERMIT  -I..  -o lynx  LYClean.o 
> LYShowInfo.o LYEdit.o LYStrings.o  LYMail.o HTAlert.o GridText.o LYGet
> 
> File.o  LYMain.o LYMainLoop.o LYCurses.o LYBookmark.o LYUtils.o  LYOptions.o 
> LYReadCFG.o LYSearch.o LYHistory.o  LYForms.o LYPrint.o LYrcFile.o 
> LYDownload.o LYNews.o LYKeymap.o  HTML.o HTFWriter.o HTInit.o DefaultStyle.o 
> LYLocal.o LYUpload.o  LYLeaks.o LY
> 
> exit.o LYJump.o LYList.o LYCgi.o LYTraversal.o  LYEditmap.o LYCharSets.o 
> LYCharUtils.o LYMap.o ../WWW/Library/snake/libwww.a  -lc -lHcurses -ltermcap  
>          
> *** Error exit code 1
> *** Error exit code 1
> 
> This is the Error being listed
> ===============================
> 
> (Bundled) cc: warning 480: The -O option is available only with the C/ANSI C 
> product; ignored.
> (Bundled) cc: warning 480: The -A option is available only with the C/ANSI C 
> product; ignored.
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: ../WWW/Library/snake/libwww.a: Not a valid library (invalid 
> magic number)
> 
> Stop.
> 
> Stop.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gijoy Zachariah.
> 


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