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>>Anyway I think that your future Elinks package would be the best choice
for a text browser with ssl (and java?).

Sorry I did not read your recent message.
I will install on my bl2.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Giuseppe




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Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:05 AM
Subject: [BL] glibc 2.2.5 elinks


> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/elinks-0.11.4rc1-small-ssl.gz
> 1.6 MB unzipped
> Testing working at google gmail.
>
> Compiled with SSL and CSS and bookmarks and FTP but no gpm zlib bzlib lua
> (for writing scripts), gnutls (alternate to opessl), nls, xbel (related to
> bookmarks), backtraces (whatever those are) or javascript.  It took longer
> to download source code than to compile..
>
> Multicolored text.  Follow instructions to type Enter before filling in
> forms or you will get odd results.
>
> What do zlib and bzlib do anyway, let you view zipped files with the
> browser?
>
> To compile any version of links with ssl support against uclibc, I would
> first need to find (compile?) perl for uclibc, then openssl using perl.
> I probably won't bother.
>
> elinks would be smaller upx'ed, as would the other browsers, but take up
> as much memory to run.
>
> I don't know how to use elinks.
>
> If I go to a local image there is a line where I can type in zgv % and it
> will open the image with zgv, or I can choose to save it, or display it as
> plain text, or cancel.  It ran under X and displayed with xv.  It
> displayed a pdf file with svp (console) or xpdf (x).
>
> Run in console mode it uses .3% of my RAM, and in X .4% (like lynx).
> links2 text mode used only .2% but does less.
>
> You can add or modify or delete file extensions but I don't see a way to
> associate them with programs to automate things.
>
> h for history.
>
> This binary is not much smaller than non-graphical links2 but it should be
> fun to play with while I work on javascript support.  I need to patch the
> js source code from Mozilla.
>
> Dependencies are glibc 2.2.5 libc, libdl, and ld-linux (and probably
> libresolv and libdns_nss to access anything online without the IP number).
>
> ------------------------
> A summary of my attempt to compile with javascript support
>
> I extracted the files from js and applied the patch but cannot edit the
> config.mk (in js) to adjust the $PREFIX variable because I can't find
> PREFIX.  I think I am supposed to change /opt/spidermonkey to /usr/local
> but I can't find that either.
>
> The two new library files total over 6MB.  javascript is not small.
> libjs.so has dependencies libm.so.6 libc.so.6 and ld-linux.so.2
>
> Am I correct that only one of these is needed, the .so if you compile
> dynamically (adds a dependency) or the .a if statically?
>
> After patching:
>
> make -f Makefile.ref
> make -f Makefile.ref export
>
> As root or sudo -c
> make -f Makefile.ref export install && (ldconfig -v | grep libjs)
>
> Check for libjs.so -> libjs.so  (it is there as the last line of
> compilation output to the screen and there are /lib/libjs.o and libjs.a)
>
> make clean and configure again but this time I left out
> --without-spidermonkey and added back zlib and bzlib (which gives two more
> dependencies in the resulting elinks binary).
>
> 1.635M with javascript (in theory) and zlib and bzlib
> 1.632M without them
>
> Since there is no size increase, I tested to see if javascript is really
> there.  I am told when I try to use it
>
> Unable to retrieve javascript:void(0):
> JavaScript support is not enabled.
>
> Various other things are labelled 'Harmless button' at page bottom
> that should run javascript scripts but don't.
>
> Makefile.cfg has nothing about spidermonkey in it and .configure does not
> detect it.  Something missing...
>
> Can someone else please tackle elinks with javascript?  I can't follow all
> the instructions.
>
> At least I have one more ssl-enabled browser.  Like links and links2, it
> works at gmail and two shell accounts, but not my library (where lynx does
> work).
>
> Sindi
>
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