From: gwynn AT msn DOT globaldialog DOT com (John Schucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: lynx 2.7 under dos.
Date: 13 Mar 1997 03:20:13 GMT
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I am trying to compile lynx 2.7 under DOS, with djgpp.  I've been in 
touch with the author, and he seemed to think it wouldn't work, and that 
it wouldn't be able to keep up with the libwww.a versions.  I think it 
could, with say a sed script to change all of the LFN refs, but I've done 
that by hand this time.
  
However, I can get everything to make except libwww.a, because it needs 
the file .created.  However, when I change the (LOB)/.created to 
(LOB)/created or _created, I get:
make commonma: 149, missing separator, stop.
  
commonma is commonmakefile, in www/library/implementation, which gets 
changed to www/library/implemen.  I've changed all the refs in the 
makefile as well.
  
So far, as far as I can tell, I get .o files for all the stuff I've made 
so far.  It just fails on the make of lynx itself because it needs 
libwww.a.  BTW, I can post the makefile, it needed.  Somebody, help?
  
I'd really like to be able to make lynx under DOS, reliably, because 
otherwise I'm dependant on somebody else to make changes, etc.  I 
personally don't see why it must be restricted to being made with win95 
simply because it depends on LFN.  Surely there's some way around this?