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Re: LYNX-DEV help: finally!
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: LYNX-DEV help: finally! |
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Sun, 8 Mar 1998 14:06:41 -0500 (EST) |
> Another suggested change is to move the userdefs.h define out of the
> "YOU MUST CHANGE THIS ON UNIX" section. (Maybe this happened in pre.5.)
> This surely could confuse first time installers who don't know how things
> "used to be".
I don't remember deleting that comment (sorry). Will add to the nit-list.
> >& second, it doesn't say anything about removing config.cache ,
> >which was the problem in my case (not make clean ).
I added a note explaining that to INSTALLATION.
> This option should not be in userdefs.h at all for Unix, it should be in
> a separate section. Right now it's in a section that says "you must
> change this" and then there is a comment next to it that says "don't
> change it" and INSTALLATION says "do change it" (or did say that). If
> someone would re-arrange userdefs.h slightly then the average Unix users
> would have an easier time. I would do so but I'm in Chattanooga for the
> week while my machine is back on campus.
It'd also be simpler if we delete the pre-autoconf stuff out. Since we
don't seem to have a mandate requiring us to keep it, that's 2nd or 3rd
on my list for post-2.8 (removing unused & obsolete code).
> I personally don't touch userdefs.h at all. Essentially everything that
> is in there that is not a security option is configurable at runtime with
> lynx.cfg, or at least that was the design principle.
I don't touch it either (which is why I have not closely read the comments
there (all right: CAPITALS SHOULD MAKE IT NOTICEABLE ;-)
- mostly it's supporting non-Unix configurations.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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