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Re: lynx-dev (patch) INSTALLATION
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Doug Kaufman |
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Re: lynx-dev (patch) INSTALLATION |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:15:27 -0800 (PST) |
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
> below is a patch to tidy up & clarify `General Configuration Instructions
> (all ports)' in INSTALLATION; i hope it doesn't change any content.
> please read it from the point of view of Joe User or Jill Sysadmin,
> who are approaching Lynx for the first time.
Thanks. This generally looks good. See a few suggestions below.
> + If you are using configure (e.g. with UNIX or Cygwin), you don't strictly
> + need to make any changes in userdefs.h , but it is wise to check there
> + to make sure e.g. that the location of lynx.cfg is correctly defined.
The location of lynx.cfg should be set with --libdir= option to the
configure script. The location can be checked in lynx_cfg.h after
configure has run, if necessary. As far as I know, the location won't
be written to userdefs.h.
> ...
> +Step 4. News for UNIX and VMS.
and DOS and WIN32. Are there any platforms where this doesn't apply?
Doug
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