Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.6dev.19

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:
>
> > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:57:02 -0400
>
>
> > Subject: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.6dev.19
> The Info page seems to say "lynx2.8.6pre.1".
>
>
> > * add configure options --with-cfg-file and --with-lss-file to allow one to
> >   specify the names and paths of the default configuration and color-style
> >   files -TD
> Through dev.18, if I supplied "configure" with only the path
> "--prefix=/proj/sweng/local", I got in lynx_cfg.h:
>
>    #define LYNX_CFG_FILE "/proj/sweng/local/lib/lynx.cfg"         /* 
> $libdir/lynx.cfg */
>
> ....  Now, in dev.19 (or is it pre.1?) I get:
>
>    #define LYNX_CFG_FILE "/usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg"              /* 
> $libdir/lynx.cfg */
>
> Is it the intent of the change that the location of lynx.cfg no
> longer defaults to --prefix/lib, and I must supply --with-cfg-file
> and --with-lss-file to install in a private directory?

no - the intent of the change was to allow one to suppress the value (not 
to change the default).  I'll revisit this (getting the prefix merged in 
properly is not straightforward, and iirc I used a macro that was supposed 
to handle this ;-)

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