Re: lynx-dev dev17 problem (still)

[dickey]

did dev16 work - or what was the last version that you built?
 
> 990217 i reported:  
> > on this IRIX 5.3 system i configured & made 2-8-2dev.17 apparently ok, 
> > but upon executing it got garbage instead of the start page; 
> > also, ordinary keys aren't recognised -- eg  v  -- , tho' the F-keys are: 
> > eg F1 gets a few lines loosely resembling parts of the Main Help Page; 
> >  ^g  won't exit, but  ^c  will ( Q  doesn't work, of course). 
> > 2-8-1rel.1 continues to run ok in another Screen window. 
> > i customised  userdefs.h  &  lynx.cfg  to pick up my usual preferences. 
>  
> i started over, downloading the package afresh into an empty subdirectory. 
> carefully editing  userdefs.h  &  lynx.cfg  took  60 min , 
> using diff files from my 2-8-1rel.1 version; configure & make took  20 min . 
>  
>  configure  reported it was using  cc  &  curses  (system versions), 
> it couldn't find library for  inet_addr  function (warning), 
let's start with this one (inet_addr), since afaik there were no more problems
with that.

> it didn't accept my local  lynx.cfg , using the system version instead 
"didn't accept" (I don't follow: configure doesn't do anything with it)

> -- NB this could be a problem, as the sysadmin still has 2-6 ; 
> also NB, this DID NOT happen with 2-8-1: has anything changed? -- 
> i'm always amused to read it is `checking if TRUE/FALSE defined' ... 

this is a check to avoid conflict with some curses headers (won't go away ;-)
  
>  make  warned it had modified an rvalue in  LYReadCFG.c 1043 , 
> pointing to the 3rd  (char *)  in that line. 
sounds like a coding error (will check)
  
> after all this, the result was exactly as described above (again). 
> i tried telling it  -cfg=~/ld17/lynx2-8-2/lynx.cfg , 
> in case that was the problem, but without success 
> (i can't do anything within Lynx, as it won't accept letter commands). 
>  
> the binary is  c 10 %  bigger than 2-8-1 : 
> what is it compiling in which wasn't in 2-8-1 ? that's one place to start; 
> another is that it won't accept simple keystroke commands: that's wierd. 
>  
> i can submit the configure script i use 
> (unchanged from 2-8-1, except for subdirectory locations) 
> &  diff  files for the  config.cache  &  lynx_cfg.h  files 
> for 2-8-1rel.1 & 2-8-2dev.17 .  would any of these help? 
>  
> i've done what an intelligent user, 
> who isn't familiar with all the latest changes in charsets, i18n etc etc, 
> would do to use the latest development version 
> on a generally well-managed system. 
> sensible suggestions are not only welcome, but needed (smile). 
>  
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