LYNX-DEV http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0198/msg00539.html

[jks2557]

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>> >> 1) When compiling on a linux machine, lynx will only bold text by using
>> >> reverse video.  The 2.7.1 development version my isp has installed can
>> >> bold.  How do I fix this?
>> >that sounds like you are building with bsd curses, while your ISP has
>> >used some flavor of sysv curses or ncurses or slang
>> >(what type of platform is that?)
>>
>> I tried "make linux" and "make linux-ncurses"  I have no idea what they
>> have installed on that machine.  It's possible they compliled the binaries
>> elsewhere.
>bsd curses can only do reverse video; ncurses can do whatever the terminal
>is capable of (bold, reverse, colors - underline if it's not Linux console ;-)
>slang also can use the terminal's capabilities.

The 'make linux-ncurses' didn't fail.  Would it, if it couldn't find an
ncurses package?  BTW I tried compiling the slang package but that
wouldn't compile.