Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx for Linux

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Stefan Caunter wrote:

> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Philip Webb <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I need to recompile Lynxwith USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES  I'm trying to figure it out, but 
> > I >am pretty clueless here.I use Linux Mint and have ever only installed software 
> > on Linux with >their software portal.You can see a post I made about this at 
> > http://www.linuxmint
>
> assuming they provide gcc you can do this in a shell
>
> ftp lynx.isc.org
> user ftp
> cd current
> get lynx-cur.tgz
> quit
>
> tar zxf lynx-cur.tgz
> cd lynx*
>
> type
>
> ../configure --help | grep -i persist
> for the correct option for persistent cookies, or just read through it
> ../configure --help | more
> and choose what you want included

The INSTALLATION file lists all of the options (and the persistent cookies
option is turned on by default - for quite a while).

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