Re: WWWLib 5 in LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0

[T.E.Dickey]

> > Gnu make is available for a lot of platforms DOS included, and I believe
> > win32 via the cygnus tools. Is this a big issue ?
> 
> Yes.  Each additional piece of code needed to bring up a project like
> Lynx is a pain in the butt.  Currently we have: working C compiler &
> libraries; OS-supplied curses library; optionally, ncurses or slang,
> freeWAIS.  Adding things like GNU make to the list of required tools
> makes Lynx more painful to work with.  Let's not.
agreed.  It's one thing to link-in functionality that adds to the program,
it is another thing entirely to rely on tools for building.

My practice is to make the program build with as many possible tool sets
as I've time for (so my curses applications build with BSD 4.3, BSD 4.4,
SVr4 curses, etc.).

I mainly use gmake (other than on Linux ;-) as a second opinion on why the
vendor's make isn't finding dependencies.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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