Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.1

[dickey]

> 
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> > > If you used "--disable-forms-options" you would compile in only the 
> > > old-style options menu, and could do away with the setting in lynx.cfg. 
> >  
> > yes - that's what the installation instructions say. I'm more curious why 
> > his build ran into the problem with touchline, since the conflicting 
> > prototype is in the BSD curses header file, which he should not be 
> > including for a slang build. 
>  
> It's not "my build" that "ran into the problem with touchline". Since Klaus 
> said that the problem "apparently doesn't apply to most installations", I 
> decided to try to compile Lynx with no changes on its default settings, just 
> using "./configure" and "make", what means that the configure script uses 
> curses. That's when the problem with touchline appeared. Here's part of my 
> message to Klaus: 

ok - I lost the thread: your next message said you were using slang.
anyway, the workaround is to code a touchwin there rather than a touchline,
since it's not worth special-casing.
  
> | > which apparently doesn't apply to most installations. 
> |  
> | Other installations may have other related problems. On a FreeBSD system, 
> | compiling Lynx out-of-the-box with just "./configure" and "make" gives 
> |  
> | ./LYOptions.c: In function `popup_choice': 
> | ./LYOptions.c:3181: too few arguments to function `touchline' 
> | *** Error code 1 
> |  
> | Stop. 
>  
> Ismael 
> --  
>  
>        +--------------------------------------------------------------+ 
>        | ISMAEL CORDEIRO            | mailto:address@hidden      | 
>        | Production sound mixer     | http://www.ismael.cordeiro.com/ | 
>        | Montréal - Québec - Canada | ftp://ftp.cam.org/users/ismael/ | 
>        +--------------------------------------------------------------+ 


-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
address@hidden
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey