Re: LYNX-DEV Need help compiling with DJGPP under DOS

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > Thanks, Bill, for the fix to the WWW makefile for DOS.  A broken
> > make file would stop most would-be compilers dead in their tracks.
> > Hope the original poster has been following this thread.
> > 
> > > ! CFLAGS = -O3 -DEXP_CHARTRANS -DDOSPATH -DNOUSERS -DDEBUG 
> > > -I../../../djgpp/t
> >                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I thought that for Unix anyway the "-DEXP_CHARTRANS" flag is no
> > longer needed, i.e., Lynx code IS chartrans, and chartrans is not
> > an ifdefed experimental add-on option anymore.  Can "-DEXP_CHARTRANS"
> > be removed from the DOS makefiles, too?  If not, there might be
> > something out of wack there.  Just a question; don't know personally.
> it's still needed (but Klaus says that the program won't work without
> the EXP_CHARTRANS code).  so it's just a leftover thing that should
> be removed.

We could put a #define EXP_CHARTRANS in userdefs.h; it's just a question
of going through the code and removing all references to the symbol.
I haven't done that cleanup yet (I am not good at cleaning up...).

> -- I was curious about the removal of the COLOR_CURSES ifdef (was this
>    because someone is building against differently-patched PDCurses,
>    or because of some other change)?

I was also wondering, but have put it in 2.7.1ac-0.87 as given.

   Klaus

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