Re: LYNX-DEV help: finally!

[T.E.Dickey]

> In fact, some such settings (like LOCALHOST_ALIAS, LOCAL_DOMAIN,NNTPSERVER,
> PRINTER, DOWNLOADER, etc., should be specifiable in a file that acts as input
> to configure (siteconf.in or some such) since they are part of the environment
> that configure is figuring out to build lynx.
something like that, I guess - we'll certainly continue refining/extending
the process (but don't want to leave the non-Unix platforms hard to build).
 
> Hey, I am certainly not the crack config programmer that Tom is, but maybe
> some of my ideas, when run through other minds, might make sense to add.
> 
> Oh, one note, I did a make install, and then a make install-help, and to my
> frustration, I noted that a sed script took my carefully crafted HELPFILE
> URL (http://www.slcc.edu/lynx2-8/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html) and changed
> it to a file://localhost/usr/local/lib/... URL. The lynx2-8 directory being 
...
My pending patch modifies the install so that lynx.cfg's pointer to the
help-files is edited only if you use "make install-help".  I think that's
what you are having problems with.  (As we get up to a real release, we're
looking more closely at install issues - that's more/less what I expect).

> Scott
> 
> PS I tried the SSL patch on a copy of the release code and it failed. Just
> thought I would mention it.
I tried the patch yesterday, and it did build.  (I looked only at the VMS
script changes for today, and those will require some work, since they've
dropped part of the include-path).  I'll do what I can in the morning.

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