LYNX-DEV auto config failures (was Re: now 2.7.1ac-0.36)

[Klaus Weide]

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:

[Robert Bonomi:]
> > If it'll help the active developers, I've got a 'vanilla' SunOS 4.1.3 box,
> > and I can provide user accounts there for testing.  Default 
> > screen-management
> > is BSD curses, and I can have slang available.
> thanks, but at work I've got SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, CLIX, SCO, AIX, HP-UX
> (also VMS, but that's targeted for removal in less than two months - so I'm
> not testing on that platform, since this is a spare time activity).  And at
> home, Linux and FreeBSD.
>  
> > Note to the  auto-configure folks -- as of early June (file set 
> > 2.7.1ac-0.28),
> > the last time I had the time to try it, configure did _not_ work in this
> > environment;  configure was actually dieing -- I didn't have the time to 
> > run 
> > down precisely what the troubles were.
> I built the version from this week - which should be 2.7.1ac-0.36, on those
> platforms (and did a test-build on Solaris yesterday, just to be sure the
> merge had completed).  I'll get back to testing tomorrow.

Tom,

  I suggest you give a URL for people to get your `save-lynx' script
(and whatever else is needed, `archive' etc.), so they can report failure
to install in a form useful to you.  Maybe even temporarily pack those
scripts with the code.

     Klaus

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