lynx-dev Configure bug? on Solaris 2.6/Lynx 2.8.1

[Chris Maden]

On

rosetta-stone-40> uname -a
SunOS rosetta-stone 5.6 Generic sun4u sparc

I ran

./configure --disable-echo --enable-nsl-fork
--enable-persistent-cookies --libdir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib

Building Lynx failed with

Linking and creating Lynx executable
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I. -I.. -Ichrtrans -I./chrtrans -I.. -I../src 
-I../WWW/Library/Implementation  -Wall   -o lynx  LYClean.o LYShowInfo.o 
LYEdit.o LYStrings.o LYMail.o HTAlert.o GridText.o LYGetFile.o LYMain.o 
LYMainLoop.o LYCurses.o LYBookmark.o LYUtils.o LYOptions.o LYReadCFG.o 
LYSearch.o LYHistory.o LYForms.o LYPrint.o LYrcFile.o LYDownload.o LYNews.o 
LYKeymap.o HTML.o HTFWriter.o HTInit.o DefaultStyle.o LYLocal.o LYUpload.o 
LYLeaks.o LYexit.o LYJump.o LYList.o LYCgi.o LYTraversal.o LYEditmap.o 
LYCharSets.o LYCharUtils.o LYMap.o LYCookie.o LYExtern.o LYStyle.o LYHash.o 
UCdomap.o UCAux.o UCAuto.o  ../WWW/Library/unix/libwww.a -lz -lcurses  -lnsl 
-lsocket   /home/crism/src/freeWAIS-0.5/bin-Solaris/client.a 
/home/crism/src/freeWAIS-0.5/bin-Solaris/wais.a /usr/lib/libm.a 
LYCurses.o: In function `lynx_standout':
LYCurses.o(.text+0x80c): undefined reference to `LYaddAttr'
LYCurses.o(.text+0x820): undefined reference to `LYsubAttr'
LYCurses.o: In function `lynx_enable_mouse':
LYCurses.o(.text+0xc14): undefined reference to `mousemask'
LYCurses.o(.text+0xc2c): undefined reference to `mousemask'
make[1]: *** [lynx] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/crism/src/lynx2-8-1/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I ran into this problem with 2.8, and although I never spent the time
to resolve it, I think Ted Dickey suggested that Solaris uses ncurses
masquerading as curses.  In any case, explicitly specifying

./configure --disable-echo --enable-nsl-fork
--enable-persistent-cookies --libdir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib
--with-screen=ncurses

gave a successful compile.  It would be nice if configure could guess
this itself.  (For reference, Solaris 2.4 generic builds correctly
without specifying --with-screen.)

Please cc: me on any reply, as I am no longer subscribed to lynx-dev.

Thanks,
Chris
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