Re: LYNX-DEV ERROR: in terminal

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Francis Vidal wrote:
> hello lynx users!
> 
> i've been trying to compile lynx on my linux box (Slackware96 kernel 2.0.24)
> using this option "make linux" and it has the following errors:
> 
> ----------------------[ snip ]-------------------------
--------------------------[ MORE SNIP ]-----------------------------
> 
> when i compiled it using "make linux-ncurses" , it has no errors BUT
> i have trouble using it on a linux TERM but no problem with vt100.

First of all, linux-ncurses is the one you *should* be using for any
newer Linux system, since ncurses is supposed to be THE curses system
for Linux.  I.e. the newer, better one.

Slackware seems to do strange things with the ncurses header files -
it puts them in a different place than other distributions.

You should be able to see in src/LYCurses.h where Lynx expects the
ncurses header file - normally that should be
/usr/include/ncurses/curses.h.  If the header file that goes with your
ncurses library is somewhere else and you have an older version in the
at the expected location, things probably won't work right.  So try
to copy or move or symlink the current version to the above location
if necessary (after making sure you have a backup of the old version).

> what can be the cause of these errors?

You didn't describe any errors for the ncurses compilation, other than
saying you "have trouble".  that's not a lot to go by...

Anyway, check the above first.

When you recompile, always first do a `make clean' before 
`make linux-ncurses'.

Uhmm, and maybe you should upgrade from Slackware to Debian...

  Klaus

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