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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> Did you load lynx from a third floppy disk?

Yes.

> Did you compile using the 2.4 kernel?

Yes.

> Do you know if lynx 2.8.6 needs kernel 2.4 if compiled with glibc?

It does not need 2.4, if you compile dynamically. However, if you
compile statically, it depends on the version of glibc used. The rule
of thumb: If the solibs (of the glibc version that you use to compile it)
work on the target kernel, e.g. 2.2.16 or 2.2.26, then the static binary
will work on the same kernel. So a static binary made with SW91
should work on BL3 or BL2. I don't know if they fixed the networking
bug, though.

> > The static, stripped binary is 1482KB uncompressed, gzipping it
> > yields a 707K gz file. Do you want to try it? I think that you
> > can use your existing lynx.cfg and SSL certificates.
>
> Is it slightly larger than mine, which is 1.27MB statically compiled
> against glib 2.1.3, because it is a later version and includes bzip2?

Likely because it is a later version. You can compare the size of
the source archives here:

http://lynx.isc.org/current/

2.8.5:

 2177287 Feb  4  2004 lynx2.8.5rel.1.tar.bz2
 2984352 Feb  4  2004 lynx2.8.5rel.1.tar.gz
 3175700 Feb  4  2004 lynx2.8.5rel.1.zip

2.8.6pre16:

 4569407 Dec 18 14:52 lynx2.8.6dev.16.tar.Z
 2265192 Dec 18 14:52 lynx2.8.6dev.16.tar.bz2
 3152254 Dec 18 14:52 lynx2.8.6dev.16.tar.gz
 3357937 Dec 18 14:52 lynx2.8.6dev.16.zip

I don't think that my version includes bzip2.

> Do lynx.lss and lynx.cfg go in /usr/lib/lynx?

It wants lynx.cfg to go in /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg. Is that
too inconvenient? I could recompile with a different
location.

> > I will check and see if I possibly left anything out.

I left out GNU tls, (replacement for SSL that hasn't caught
on) support for any output other than curses, (e.g. slang,
pdcurses) socks, (advanced proxy) and all of this:

  --enable-addrlist-page  use experimental address-list page
  --enable-charset-choice use experimental charset-selection logic
  --enable-cjk            use experimental CJK logic
  --enable-japanese-utf8  use experimental Japanese UTF-8 logic
  --enable-color-style    use optional/experimental color style 
(ncurses/curses)
  --enable-default-colors enable use of default-colors (ncurses/slang)
  --enable-htmlized-cfg   build experimental htmlized lynx.cfg
  --enable-ipv6           use experimental ipv6 (with ipv4) support
  --enable-kbd-layout     use experimental keyboard-layout support
  --enable-locale-charset use experimental locale-charset selection logic
  --enable-nested-tables  use experimental nested-table support
  --enable-scrollbar      use experimental scrollbar, with mouse

  --enable-externs        use external commands
  --enable-font-switch    use Linux setfont for character-translation
  --enable-cgi-links      support cgi links w/o a http daemon
  --enable-change-exec    allow users to change exec options
  --enable-exec-links     allow lynx to execute programs accessed via a link
  --enable-exec-scripts   allow lynx to execute programs inferred from a link
  --enable-internal-links handle following links to same doc differently
  --enable-nsl-fork       fork NSL requests, allowing them to be aborted
  --enable-syslog         log URL requests via syslog
  --enable-underlines     underline links rather than using boldface
  --enable-gzip-help      install gzip'ed help files
  --with-bzlib            use libbz2 for decompression of some bzip2 files
  --with-zlib             use zlib for decompression of some gzip files

> > Tomorrow I will try booting BL3.4.
>
> I will download it so I can try your lynx with it.

I already tried it. It works.

> Did the full lynx.cfg fit into the first ramdisk and lynx executable go in
> /tmp on the second ramdisk?

The second ramdisk in BL3 is /usr/X11R6. I made a third ramdisk
and mounted it in /tmp and then copied lynx there.

You can try my first binary here:

http://us.share.geocities.com/davidjmoberg/lynx.gz

David