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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> 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.

Does your lynx work online but not offline with 2.2.16?  This is a kernel 
bug?

You say below that it works with BL3.4 - 2.2.26.  A good reason to upgrade 
the kernel, but Steven's 2.2.26 does not support scsi.  And I don't want 
to download kernel source code for 2.2.26.

I can use your 2.4.31 scsi-usb kernel with everything (except the 2-floppy 
BLs).  I think SW10.2 has all the modules.

> > > 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.

You said something about a bzip2 version, probably you mean lynx.bz2 (but 
you posted a gz).  The dynamic linuxpackages SW91 version requires the 
bzip and zlib libraries.

> > 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.

Mine is in /usr/lib, the linuxpackages SW91 version in /usr/lib/lynx, and 
I forget where Slackware put its version, maybe usr/lib/lynx.  Your 
location makes more sense.

> > > 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
Possibly relevant to non-English speaking users, not to be.

>  --enable-nested-tables  use experimental nested-table support
Does this display tables?

>  --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
I don't think either one displays on TTL.
>  --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

I think my version had zlib and the SW91 version at linuxpackages has both 
of these.  Is this only for compressing things like help 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.

2.2.26 works where 2.2.16 did not?

> > 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

Thanks, maybe tomorrow but we are having a linux visitor.
Did you compile ncurses and openssl against uClibc for this static 
version?

Sindi