Re: lynx-dev Re: LinuxApps: Lynx

[David Woolley]

> I agree, with the caveat... they want it to be as easy as what they are
> familiar with.  So they are willing to cd /usr/local/install/foo, run
> ./configure, run make install, all without caring, as long as it works,

Which will fail:  no compiler, which the user will not be able to
understand.  I've seen this one several times on at least one mailing
list from plug and play users.  Assume that modern linux users do
not have any development tools installed.

>                        Perhaps we should have configure or make install
> create error logs, which we can ask them to send us instead of screen
> shots.

Most of the autoconf scripts I have seen create logs automatically; the
problem is that people don't understand that autoconf is supposed to
produce compilation errors, so they pick the first compilation error
and mail that to the support list!