Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: MingW and Lynx 2.8.6dev.18 [PATCH]

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, William McBrine wrote:

> Thomas Dickey <dickey <at> his.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > > I finally got around to compiling lynx2.8.6dev.18 on DOS and MingW
> > > (using patch dev.18c). The DOS DJGPP compilation seemed to go fine,
> > > but the MingW compilation had the same problem as did dev.17, where
> > > the executable file exits immediately after being invoked (due to
> > > changes in the PDCurses interface). The patch that I posted in January
> > > fixes the problem, but hasn't been incorporated in the code yet
> >
> > thanks - I only recall seeing some email with a fix for pdcurses itself.
>
> PDCurses wasn't broken -- Lynx was. Specifically, it made an implicit assumption
> about the value of ERR. My patch just makes it explicit.
>
> I don't actually like my patch, but it was the minimum change I could make
> without disrupting anything else. What I'd really prefer would be a massive
> rewrite of Lynx's keyboard handling. Maybe I'll try that one of these days...

I'd like to (rewrite it) also, but at the moment just want bug-fixes.
There are a few regressions from 2.8.5 which are blocking a new release...

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