Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.6dev.12 -- CRASH on OSX 10.4.1

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hi thomas,

> > however, at first launch, i still get the dots-n-lines blinkig on a blue
> > screen ...
> >
> > good news is that it goes away after linking to a site -- i.e., back to my
> > shell defaults.
>
> odd - it sounds something like a problem with the background coloring
> that I used to fixup the color style code.  A sign-extension problem
> could do that, e.g., by making some cells appear to have video attributes
> set that they shouldn't have.
>
> The only visual glitches I've seen have been the less obvious ones (that
> I'm still working on - dev.12 fixes some but not all).  For example,
> using ncurses 5.2 (FreeBSD), there's a case where link highlights are
> written one cell to the right.  It works fine with ncurses 5.4.  Testing
> on FreeBSD I found a couple of ncurses bugs (since 5.4) that'll be in
> tomorrow's fixes.  But no blinking...


hmmm ....

just fyi, my config is:

   ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr/local \
   --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl \
   --with-zlib \
   --with-screen=ncursesw --with-curses-dir=/usr/local/ncurses \
   --enable-color-style \
   --enable-default-colors \
   --enable-change-exec \
   --enable-cgi-links \
   --enable-exec-links \
   --enable-exec-scripts \
   --disable-nls \
   --enable-ipv6

w/ NCURSES 5.4 + patches:

        ncurses-5.4-20050319-patch.sh.bz2
        ncurses-5.4-20050320.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050326.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050327.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050403.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050409.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050416.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050423.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050430.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050507.patch.gz
        ncurses-5.4-20050515.patch.gz

config'd as:

        ./configure \
        --prefix=/usr/local/ncurses \
        --with-shared \
        --with-normal \
        --without-debug \
        --enable-termcap \
        --enable-widec \
        --without-cxx \
        --without-cxx-binding \
        --with-abi-version=5.4

cheers,

richard