Re: LYNX-DEV Tiny patch to fix HP-UX 10.20 + curses + 2.8.pre2

[T.E.Dickey]

> Dates don't mean much.  Notice that libHcurses.sl is a symlink to 
> libcurses.1, and libcurses.sl is a symlink to libxcurses.1.
well, yes - symbolic links get the date of creation.  (and I can see that
the install of the actual files has all the same dates).
> 
> Under Linux this would be analogous to symlinking libcurses.so.1 to 
> libHcurses.so, and linking libxcurses.so.1 to libcurses.so.  There is
> no .a library in sight for libxcurses.
> 
> libcur_colr is larger than any of the others.  Maybe bigger is better.
> 
> I edited aclocal.m4 and generated a new configure script.  I have Autoconf
> version 2.12 installed, it complains with this.
You need my patches to autoconf 2.12 (on my autoconf page), or
equivalently, the .gz files in

        ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/autoconf
 
(The AC_DIVERT_HELP stuff, in fact, is needed to allow that lengthy help
message on one of the boxes in our lab).

> configure.in:252: warning: AC_HAVE_LIBRARY is obsolete; instead use 
> AC_CHECK_LIB
> autoconf: Undefined macros:
> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP
> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP
> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP
> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP
> 
> The resulting configure script is not usable.  What version of autoconf 
> do I need to make Lynx work?  I'll try getting the latest, or just
> modifying the configure script.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Sergent / address@hidden
> 


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Thomas E. Dickey
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