Re: Re: lynx-dev Building Problem with Lynx2.8.1 October 24 release

[dickey]

> 
>  
> >> While building Lynx 2.8.1, the following problem occurred:  
> >> The makefile for the src/chrtrans directory generated by configure does  
> >> not honor the setting of LIBS environment variable. As a consequence, (on  
> >> this particular host) linking of makeuctb fails.  
>  
> > oh.  I hadn't thought makeutcb would be a problem since it uses no math, 
> > and uses only the standard C library.  What sort of platform is this? 
>   
> It´s AIX 4.3.2  
> Setting LIBS is required because of unusual library locations. 
> configure ignores LIBS when generating the chrtrans makefile and the  
> generated makefile ignores the LIBS environment variable either.  
> Consequently, the linker uses the wrong library when trying to link  
> makeutcb and linking fails. 
> ( Comments in other makefiles show that similiar things happen in other  
> makefiles with other environment variables ). 

ok (I did fix that in the 2.8.2dev.1 patch, which is in the 2.8.1 fixes)


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