Thank you much for taking time to look at this.
i am attempting to install and run lynx2-8-7.
The current OS i have is Debian of 2.6.26-2-amd64
It looks as though ncurses = version 5.7 .... this was installed already on
the system (since time of original OS install)
i am a beginner at using linux, but have a general understanding of some of
this.
I have included some info, particularly of the error when i attempt the "make"
command.
hopefully it will be clear what step(s) i am missing or doing wrong, at least
enough to point me in the right direction.
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I downloaded the file (lynx2.8.7.tar.bz2) into a "/lynx" directory i created.
Then uncompressing created "/lynx/lynx2-8-7"
These are done from root.
In root terminal at "/lynx/lynx2-8-7"# a first attempt was
to use simply "./configure"
this ran through alittle, and stopped when saying curses headers not found.
then running "./configure --with-screen=ncurses" went a bit furthur untill
not finding color-style
...so then running (still from root /lynx/lynx2-8-7:# )
"./configure --with-screen=ncurses --disable-color-style" seemed to
go through all the configure process...
the above was done exactly as above, along with the
--sysconfdir=/lynx/lynx2-8-7 option added - both seemed to get through
configure ok, though the "make" command failed for both :
This is the terminal output for running (from root) :/lynx/lynx2-8-7#make
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/bin/sh -c 'SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./scripts/cfg_defs.sh .'
Constructing sed-script help_files.sed
sed -e '/^#/d' -e '/^$/d' \
-e 's%\(.*\)=\(....@.*\)$...@\1@=\2=g%' \
-e 's%\(.*\)=\(http:.*\)$...@\1@=\2=g%' \
-e 's%\(.*\)=\(ftp:.*\)$...@\1@=\2=g%' \
-e 's%\(.*\)=\(.*\.html\)$...@\1@=\2=g%' \
help_files.tmp | tr '=' '"'> help_files.sed
Appending interim-fix for existing html files to help_files.sed
sed -e '/^#/d' -e '/[:@]/d' -e '/^$/d' \
-e 's%\(.*\)=\(.*\.html\)$%s=\2=\2=g%' \
-e 's%\.html=%\\.html=%' \
help_files.tmp | tr '=' '"'>> help_files.sed
if test -n ""; then echo 's%\\%%g'>> help_files.sed; fi
Creating LYHelp.h
**********************************************
Help files will NOT be gzipped.
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cd ./WWW/Library/Implementation && make DESTDIR="" CC="gcc" LY_CFLAGS="-O2 "
CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -DLINUX -I/usr/include/ncurses" LYFLAGS=""
make[1]: Entering directory `/lynx/lynx2-8-7/WWW/Library/Implementation'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../.. -I../../../src -I../../.. -I../../../src
-I../../../WWW/Library/Implementation -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLINUX
-I/usr/include/ncurses -O2 -I../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/
-DACCESS_AUTH -c ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c
In file included from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c:8:
../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:534:19: error: operator '==' has
no left operand
../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:540:21: error: operator '==' has
no left operand
../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:557:19: error: operator '>' has
no left operand
../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:572:20: error: operator '==' has
no left operand
../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:578:22: error: operator '==' has
no left operand
../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:595:20: error: operator '>' has
no left operand
In file included from /usr/include/fcntl.h:38,
from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/www_tcp.h:133,
from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:630,
from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c:8:
/usr/include/sys/stat.h:458: error: redefinition of ‘stat’
/usr/include/sys/stat.h:452: error: previous definition of ‘stat’ was here
In file included from ../../../src/LYKeymap.h:6,
from ../../../src/LYUtils.h:6,
from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c:11:
../../../src/LYCurses.h:217:41: error: curses.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../../../src/LYKeymap.h:6,
from ../../../src/LYUtils.h:6,
from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c:11:
../../../src/LYCurses.h:331: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../../src/LYCurses.h:332: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../../../src/LYCurses.h:337: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../../src/LYCurses.h:338: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
../../../src/LYCurses.h:467: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../../src/LYCurses.h:472: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../../src/LYCurses.h:824: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
In file included from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c:13:
../../../src/LYStrings.h:31: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
make[1]: *** [HTParse.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lynx/lynx2-8-7/WWW/Library/Implementation'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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Working through the INSTALLATION text was helpfull, though i am getting really
mixed up in how to define the LIB or CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS. (if these are even
necessary)
there was an ncurses info/text file that referred to the default locations for
the ncurses lib and include directories being in "/usr/local" ....this might
be the case on my system, though i am not sure how to know. (i mean...
/usr/local does have both an "include" and a "lib" folder, but i am not sure
if these are matched with ncurses)....
also the example in INSTALLATION (1e.examples) uses slang -which looks as
though it has a regular "slang" directory..... i cannot find the "curses or
ncurses" directory which has the "include and lib" directories in it on my
system.
It seems I may be leaving out necessary env variables, and not knowing how to
assign them (any attempts i have made to assign the variables LIB or CPPFLAGS
at the time of " ./configure " have just read off errors and not allowed
configuration to go)
from what i have read in the INSTALLATION text, it seems i might have some sort
of problem with setting variables, or using ncurses or curses in the wrong way
and not knowing how to coordinate things with finding lib or include files.
-- Any help would be greatly appreciated in helping me figure out what is
happening here, or even
recommending a different approach i should be taking to install the lynx
browser.
Thank you !
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