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

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > Try a text-mode web browser, such as links or lynx. Even if
> > > this uClibc root is useful for nothing else, it is still useful
> > > for building browsers that run almost anywhere.
> >
> > But these are much larger and more complicated and requiring first
> > compiling libncurses and other things,
>
> Unless you use the libncurses that comes with rootfs. What are
> 'other things'? I only needed to compile ssl and lynx.

I also compiled libz for lynx but it seems unnecessary.
links graphical uses a lot of image libraries and svgalib.

> > and besides you have already compiled lynx.
>
> The lynx project is due for another release. And it would be
> interesting to try elinks - they have rewritten their javascript
> parser so I wonder if it works with more websites?
Isn't Stephen working on elinks and uclibc?

Lynx 2.8.6dev16 crashed (exited back to the prompt) for me once, with a 
message to report the problem with lynx 2.8.5rel2.

> > Do you report to uClibc when things don't work?
>
> I have not reported anything yet. You can take a look at
> current bugs and submit your own, if you have found any,
> at bugs.busybox.net. (busybox and uclibc share bug
> tracking) They also have a mailing list.
>
> David

If things don't work it is usually my fault.