Re: lynx-dev build problems with 2.8

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> From: Ric Anderson <address@hidden> 
>  
> >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. 
>  
> Anyone know how that version on ukans.edu was created?  Ric's right - while 
> the version I fetched from the regular development site has the right 
> permissions, the one fetched from ukans is missing permissions.  Let 
> me check prep's version... the version from GNU directories has the right 
> permissions!  There's quite a bit of difference between the two tar files - 
> at least in the order of files in the tar, etc. 
Well, yes: unless you construct the tar file from an explicit list, it
will use directory-order, which isn't necessarily the order you would
expect.  Since previous versions of Lynx were released w/o a tar file,
I didn't make one - but I just put that on the release page now, so we have
something to compare.
  
> For the time being, I recommend folk either get the version from the GNU 
> archives, or even better, get the latest official revision from slcc.edu . 
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