Re: lynx-dev README.defines additions [patch]

[dickey]

> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Doug Kaufman wrote: 
>  
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Klaus Weide wrote: 
> > > > +# -DEXP_PERSISTENT_COOKIES - Enable persistent cookie storage 
> > >  
> > > Not necessary to add this since it's handled by configure 
> > > (although, somewhat inconsistently, some of those are listed.) 
> >  
> > I thouht that the whole point of README.defines was to document what 
> > all the defines are for, making future development easier (and making 
> > it easier for the platforms that don't use the configure mechanism). 
>  
> Yes, but there's such a long list of symbols set by configure that 

yes (I didn't count, but seem to recall that there were a few hundred
symbols that affect the conditional compilation).  Most of the interesting
ones (to me) are set in the configure script, so they're "listed" in
config.hin (but I prefer to keep the entries there concise for a number
of reasons).

> it seems pointless to list them all here.  They are (or should be) 
> all listed somewhere else already (INSTALLATION?).  But if 
> INSTALLATION is the canonical place for this, an explicit pointer 
> to that file in README.defines would be in order.  (And if not, 
> maybe a pointer to config.hin, although that doesn't really give 
> a clue what all the stuff is *for*). 
>  
> Just my opinion - if someone volunteers to maintain a comprehensive 
> list in README.defines, all the better.  But if not updated it would 
> soon be out of synch with reality. 
>  
>    Klaus 


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