Re: lynx-dev build problems with 2.8

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Ric Anderson wrote:

> I have a couple of problems with the lynx I got from
>   ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/WWW/lynx/lynx2-8/lynx2-8.tar.gz
> 
> 1. The autoconf used to create configure from configure.in appears to be a
>    modified version of gnu autoconf 2.12. The gnu version won't process
>    the configure.in in the lynx directory. Is the modified version
>    (2.12.971230) available someplace?
> 
> 2. The file protections on ./configure and the scripts it calls (e.g.,
>    mkdirs.sh) do not include the execute bit in the tar file, so you have
>    to manually chmod these things (I'm still not sure I've found all of
>    them) to "+x" in order to successfully run configure in the manner
>    described in the INSTALLATION file.

When creating the tar.gz archive from the original zip archive someone
screwed up the permissions and, maybe, other things. Get the original
archive from http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/release/ or the current developement
version from http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/

Ismael

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