Re: lynx-dev Problem compiling lynx-2.8.2 with ncurses in an unusual place

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> Hi, 
>  
> I had a problem compiling lynx-2.8.2 on a HP 9000/720 running HP-UX 10.20. 
> lynx didn't compile with curses (because of broken HP curses I think) and 
> it did compile when changing the library in the makefile after configuring 
> manually from curses to ncurses. But when I tried to configure lynx with 
> the --with-screen=ncurses I had the following error because our local 
> ncurses are under /usr/local/dist/lib/ (an unusual place). configure finds 

you're probably also missing also the header files.  something like this will
work:

setenv CFLAGS -I/usr/local/dist/include
setenv LIBS   -L/usr/local/dist/lib -lncurses
./configure

> ncurses (it prints the version), but it can't figure out where the library 
> is. I'm sorry if I missed an option, but I couldn't find one to solve my 
> problem. 
>  
> configure says: 
>  
> ... 
> checking for zcat... /usr/local/dist/bin/zcat 
> checking for zip... /usr/local/dist/bin/zip 
> checking for telnet... /bin/telnet 
> checking for tn3270... tn3270 
> checking for rlogin... /bin/rlogin 
> checking for working const... (cached) yes 
> checking if you want socks library... no 
> checking if you want socks5 library... no 
> checking for network libraries... working... 
> checking for gethostname... yes 
> checking for -linet... no 
> checking for socket... yes 
> checking for gethostbyname... yes 
> checking for strcasecmp... (cached) yes 
> checking for inet_aton function... yes 
> checking for screen type... ncurses 
> checking for ncurses header file... predefined 
> checking for ncurses version... 4.2.980228 
> checking for Gpm_Open in -lgpm... no 
> checking for initscr... no 
> checking for initscr in -lncurses... no 
> checking for -lncurses in /usr/local/lib... no 
> checking for -lncurses in /usr/local/lib/ncurses... no 
> checking for -lncurses in /usr/lib... no 
> checking for -lncurses in /usr/lib/ncurses... no 
> configure: error: Cannot link ncurses library 
>  
>  
>  
> cu, 
> Adrian 
>  


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