Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.5dev.16g.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Stef Caunter wrote:

> Apologies, up too late.
>
> Patch 16g applied and compiled fine. While doing so I
> noticed this output in ./configure --help
>
>   --disable-file-upload   use file-upload support
>   --disable-partial       use partial-display logic
>   --disable-persistent-cookies  disable persistent-cookie support
>   --disable-prettysrc     colorize HTML source
>   --disable-source-cache  cache HTML source for parse mode changes
>
> wherein except for the middle option the sense of the option seems to be
> reversed from its description.

not exactly.  All autoconf scripts treat --enable-XXX and --disable-XXX as
complements.  In the help-text I'm using --disable-XXX to denote options
that are normally enabled and --enable-XXX to denote options that are
normally disabled.

The help-text isn't automatic - and it is possible that the default
doesn't match the help-text (we find something like this occasionally -
will check).

Looking closely at the differences between INSTALLATION and
"configure --help", I do see (and am correcting) a couple of
discrepancies (included-msgs for example).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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