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Re: lynx-dev Patches questions
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Patches questions |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:03:31 -0400 (EDT) |
> Are the patches cumulative? I get the following:
no - so far we're discussing different versions of the same patch. For
situations like this, it's better to have just one small patch rather than
three.
-- though it would be nice if Lynx showed the unreadable files' permissions...
> Forbidden; Your client is not allowed to access the requested object.
>
> when I attempt to access either of:
>
> http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-2/patches/lynx2.8.2rel.1-fix.patch.gz
>
> http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-2/patches/lynx2.8.2rel.1-fix2.patch.gz
>
> Is this is because fix3 incorporates and supersedes fix2 and fix, or is this
> a problem?
>
> And when I apply and build with the two later patches, I get the following
> startling difference in executable sizes:
That is odd - my recollection of the changes involved is that they should
make very little difference in the executable size. Perhaps one was
optimized, and the other not?
> nyx10: ls -al */*/*lynx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pgilmart 1196032 Sep 6 09:03 lynx2-8-2rel.1/bin/lynx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pgilmart 1531904 Aug 14 23:18 lynx2-8-2rel.1/bin/oldlynx
> nyx10: uname -a
> SunOS nyx10 4.1.4 2 sun4m
>
> The attributes seem similar?
>
> lynx: sparc demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped
> oldlynx: sparc demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped
>
> I'm confused,
> gil
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