Re: LYNX-DEV Compiling Lynx 2.7 on UnixWare with Slang

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Jason "PsychoSy" Sizemore wrote:

> Hello all!!
> 
> It's been a little while since I been here and after taking notice that 
> Lynx 2.7 was official, I had to upgrade (Lynx 2.6 had that problem with 
> POST that only allowed me to redirect and recieve an error). 
>[...] 
> 
> make unixware-slang
>         cd WWW/Library/svr4; make LYFLAGS="-DNO_BCOPY -DUNIXWARE \
>                  -DLONG_LIST  "
> UX:make: INFO: `../../Library/svr4/libwww.a' is up to date.
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It seems you should do a `make clean'?  (*before* the make unixware-slang)

>         cd src; make all CC="cc" MCFLAGS="-O -DUNIX -DUSE_SLANG \
>                 -DCURS_PERFORMANCE -DNO_SIZECHANGE \
>                 -I../WWW/Library/Implementation -DUTMPX_FOR_UTMP -DSVR4 
> -DTRUE=1 -DFALSE=0 \
>                 -DNO_BCOPY -DUNIXWARE   -DOK_TAR -DOK_ZIP -DOK_GZIP 
> -DOK_UUDECODE -DOK_OVERRIDE -DOK_PERMIT  " \
>                 LIBS="-lsocket -lnsl \
>                   " \
>                 WWWLIB="../WWW/Library/svr4/libwww.a" \
>                 SLANGLIB="-L/home/Titus/bin/lib -lslang -lm" 
> SLANGINC="-I/home/Titus/bin/include"
> Compiling Lynx sources
>         cc -O -DUNIX -DUSE_SLANG        -DCURS_PERFORMANCE -DNO_SIZECHANGE    
>   -I../WWW/Library/Implementation -DUTMPX_FOR_UTMP -DSVR4 -DTRUE=1 -DFALSE=0  
>     -DNO_BCOPY -DUNIXWARE   -DOK_TAR -DOK_ZIP -DOK_GZIP -DOK_UUDECODE 
> -DOK_OVERRIDE -DOK_PERMIT   -
> I.. -I/home/Titus/bin/include -c LYMain.c
> UX:acomp: ERROR: "LYMain.c", line 254: undefined symbol: NEWS_POSTING
[etc.]

It seems you are using an old version of the file userdefs.h.
[...]
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> UX:make: ERROR: fatal error.
> $ make clean
>         rm -f WWW/Library/*/*.[aob]
>         rm -f WWW/Library/*/.created
>         cd src; make clean
>         rm -f lynx core *.[ob]
>         rm -f *.b src/lynx core Lynx.leaks
>         rm -f config.log config.cache config.status
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It seems you are using some patch that has to do with autoconf.
Maybe that is responsible for the above.  See whether you have 
an old userdefs.h where it doesn't belong..

  Klaus

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