Re: lynx-dev Mouse support on the console?

[Morten Bo Johansen]

Thanks for your generous help.

This stuff is giving me grey hairs: I fetched ncurses ver. 5.0, compiled it
--with-gpm and installed it (the ncurses installation apparently defaults to
just overwriting the old one so I took a chance and my system works fine)

Anyway, Lynx mouse-support on the console still doesn't work so I have a
couple of further questions:

The ncurses compilation has created the following libs

libform.a       libmenu.a       libncurses++.a  libncurses_g.a  libpanel_g.a
libform_g.a     libmenu_g.a     libncurses.a    libpanel.a

and they're all installed in /usr/lib

However, some debris from the SuSE installation remains - the libncurses.so
in /usr/lib is still a softlink to /lib/libncurses.so.4.2 which is from my
SuSE installation and the Lynx which I compiled anew following the ncurses
installation is still linked to this old version:

# ldd lynx
        libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4001e000)


No wonder mouse support still doesn't work. Could you tell me which of the
above mentioned libraries from the ncurses compilation that I should
softlink to libncurses.so..?

Klaus Weide <address@hidden> said:

> $ nm -D /usr/local/lib/libcurses.so|grep -i gpm
>          U Gpm_GetEvent
>          U Gpm_Open
> 000157c0 T _nc_set_gpm_connect
>          U gpm_fd

I get this from my self-compiled libncurses.a:

# nm libncurses.a |grep gpm

00000004 b gpm_connect
         U gpm_fd
         

O.k. ?

> 
> Oh yeah - you may *also* have to re-generate your libgpm library (or


I deinstalled the SuSE gpm-package (not really knowing if it contains the
neccessary libraries - there is only one gpm package in SuSE) and then I
compiled and installed gpm ver. 1.18.0


Thanks,

Morten