Re: lynx-dev Linux/ncurses/Lynx 2.8 no-bold links

[Dennis Reichel]

> > This included email describes a problem that I and at least 
> > one other person have had.  I built the lynx with as many default 
> > options as possible.  Does anyone have a solution? 
> >  
> > Thanks, Dennis Reichel 
>       configure --with-screen=ncurses
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey
> address@hidden
> http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey

Hello Thomas,

The results were the same - only reverse video for links, not bold.

I did try configure with that option, but the script appears not to honor it.
Also, as a diagnostic, I try configure --with-screen=FOO, and the resulting 
files created are identical to those created --with-screen=ncurses

I tried wading through the configure script, but it's not very clear to me
what's happening.  I have tentatively concluded that since configure believes
there is only an older version of ncurses, the --with-screen directives are
ignored altogether.

checking for screen type... (cached) curses
checking for initscr... (cached) no
checking for tgoto... (cached) no
checking for tgoto in -ltermcap... (cached) yes
checking for initscr in -lcursesX... (cached) no
checking for initscr in -lcurses... (cached) yes
checking if we need both curses and termcap libraries... no
checking for curses performance tradeoff... (cached) no
checking for location of config-file... /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes

[... many lines omitted ...]

checking if curses supports alternate-character set... (cached) no
checking if curses supports fancy attributes... (cached) no
checking for ncurses version... (cached) 1.9.9e
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
checking for obsolete/broken version of ncurses... (cached) yes
configure: warning: hmm... you should get an up-to-date version of ncurses

 gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2/specs
gcc version 2.7.2

I have installed ncurses version 4.2, but am aparently unable to
build lynx using these new libraries.  

(This is with both lynx-2.8.tar.gz and lynx2.8.1dev.13.tar.gz)


Regards, Dennis Reichel