Best Way to Fix a links Browser Compilation Problem

Chris Howells lists at chrishowells.co.uk
Wed Nov 5 12:07:36 PST 2003


> 	I am attempting to install a newer version of the "links" text
> browser.  The Makefile tells you to
> define WITHOUT_X11 if you are not using X so I modified the Makefile
> to define that parameter as follows:
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--enable-javascript --with-ssl --without-svgalib
> --WITHOUT_X11

That's wrong. You never have to edit the Makefile under "normal"
circumstances.

Remove your changes, do an 'export WITH_X11=true' (for bash, setenv under
csh), and then run 'make install' again.

Cheers,
Chris Howells


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