Re: [Lynx-dev] [Patch] Lynx won't compile against zlib 1.2.5.1

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/19/2011 04:35 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> > On 09/19/2011 04:13 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Keith Bowes wrote:
> > >
> > > > Je 2011-Sep-17 je 08:09, Thomas Dickey skribis:
> > > > > ON/OFF are on the other hand unnecessary in lynx altogether - making
> > > > > them
> > > > > TRUE/FALSE would be simpler (similar to BOOL vs BOOLEAN, but different
> > > > > since the latter are typed).
> > > >
> > > > Curious: a lot of programs use glib to get around this kind of thing
> > > > (booleans, machine word-size differences, unified interfaces for things
> > > > like regular expressions, etc.). Have you guys considered it?
> > >
> > > The BOOL vs BOOLEAN stuff is in an area where glib fails to help
> > > (native Win32 ports).
> >
> > The best idea IMO is to check for "bool". If it's not there, typedef
> > it. If
>
> in a native port, there's no autoconf - just a makefile.
> Lynx has a few of those.

I use autoconf in my native ports too.  I can cross-compile it from 
Linux or compile it natively (on Windows with mingw/msys, on OS X and 
BeOS/Haiku as-is.)

Having a single source and build system base saves me a lot of headaches.