lynx-dev dev3/4 problem (progress!)

[Philip Webb]

i've been continuing to try to track down the problem with dev.17 ,
in which Lynx displays garbage & doesn't respond to key commands.

starting with 2-8-1rel.2 & patching, i have found:
rel.2 & 2-8-2dev.1 are ok;
dev.2 & dev.3 won't compile due to an error in  gettextP.h 42-4 ;
dev.4 compiles ok, but displays the above problem.

what i notice is that dev.3 has a line in  config.log :

 configure:9235: checking if character set is EBCDIC

to which configure replies on the screen `:yes';
& in dev.3 ,  lynx_cfg.h  contains

 #define EBCDIC 1  /* CF_EBCDIC */

i tried commenting out this line, but linking failed with a message:

 ld32: error 33: unresolved text symbol "FixCharacters"
  -- first referenced in  LYMain.o ,

so i can't test whether this solves the problem:
further change is needed & i don't know where.

in  CHANGES  i note:

1998-11-16 (2.8.2dev.3)
* add preliminary changes from: address@hidden
  to support port to OS/390, some ifdef'd with __MVS__,
  some with EBCDIC and NOT_ASCII.

so why is configure assuming i have EBCDIC on this IRIX 5.3 ?!
  
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