Re: bzip2 causing lynx code compiler errors under Windows

[Victor Schneider, Ph. D.]

>I think the culprit on the matter of compiling the latest lynx source is the
>bzip2 program.  If you download lynx-cur.bz2 and untarball it using the
>command line:
>
>    bzip2 -cd lynx-cur.bz2 | tar xv
>
>you will find that there are escape characters in the source code,
>especially in lyutils.c, and that there are frequent compiler crashes during
>the attempt at compilation.
>
>Downloading lynxyyyyyy.tar.bz2 gives a fairly routine compile, with success.
>Except that sending an article to lynx-dev using lynx and blat.exe doesn't
>seem to work anymore.

P. S.  I re-tested lynx-cur.bz2 using different combinations of bzip2 and
tar, with and without piping, and I still get compiler crashes and escape
characters.