Re: LYNX-DEV: add "run ./configure" to INSTALLATION file.

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, David Combs wrote:

> Yesterday I downloaded the most recent lynx sources,

... of the development code, to be exact...

> typed out the INSTALLATION file, followed the various step 1
> and step 2 etc, all good stuff about hacking useredefs.h
> and lynx.cfg -- but "make" didn't work.
> 
> Why? No file "makefile", just a "makefile.in".
> 
> >From compiling gnu stuff I realilzed I needed to fun
> a ./configure, and looked in the directory, and
> there it was.  So I ran it, then did the make,
> all fine.
> 
> But nowhere (at least nowhere I saw) did it say
> that you had to RUN ./configure...

Yes, the INSTALLATION file is still the unchanged version from Lynx 2.7.1,
without any mention of the changed procedure.  I believe it's on Tom's
todo list.  But since you just went through reading the stuff (maybe for
the first time?), you are in a good position to know where it needs to be
added, and what else is missing.  Maybe you could make the changes and
send them back (or a diff, or put them online).

    Klaus

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