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Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1] why no bold links?
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1] why no bold links? |
Date: |
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:48:22 -0500 (EST) |
>
> Pauzner writes:
> >6-Mar-99 07:16 address@hidden wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I just "upgraded" from 2.7.1 to 2.8.1 and was horrified to find that
> >>> links are no longer displayed in bold, instead they display in reverse
> >>> video (and the currently selected link is basically
> >>> indistinguishable).
>
> ...
>
> >> try reconfiguring (make distclean) and rebuilding. (I don't recall if
> >> 1.9.6 will configure properly for the bold/underline stuff; since colors
> >> do not work properly before 1.9.9g with lynx, I've not spent a lot of
> >> time tuning it - I test-build occasionally against 1.9.4 and 1.9.9e).
>
> This advice wasn't so safe. "make distclean" removed userdefs.h and
that's not supposed to happen.
> configure refused to run. Fortunately I had made a backup of my
> modified version. I reconfigured, recompiled as before and - surprise
> surprise -- it works! This seems weird to me since the only thing I
> did the first time was modify userdefs.h and the second time I used
> the identical file.
>
> I suspect the distribution wasn't clean when I got it.
I suspect so (please download a fresh copy).
> For some variety I tried configuring it to use slang instead of
> ncurses and this is what I got...
>
> address@hidden lynx2-8-1]# ./configure --with-screen=slang
> --enable-persistent-c
> ookies
> [ yadda yadda yadda ]
> checking for -lslang in /usr/lib... no
> checking for -lslang in /usr/lib/slang... no
> configure: error: Cannot link slang library
look in config.log
> address@hidden lynx2-8-1]# ls -l /usr/lib/libslang*
> 189 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 191930 Feb 27 1996
> /usr/lib/libslang.a*
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 12 1997
> /usr/lib/libslang.so -> libslang.so.0.99.24*
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 12 1997
> /usr/lib/libslang.so.0 -> libslang.so.0.99.24*
> 153 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 155448 Feb 27 1996
> /usr/lib/libslang.so.0.99.24*
>
> Huh?
>
>
> Thanks for your advice guys.
>
> Tim
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Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1] why no bold links?, dickey, 1999/03/10