Changeset c22b9f4 for basicnet/textweb/lynx.xml

Timestamp:

01/22/2007 04:15:48 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

6c787ded

Parents:

6eff6e1

Message:

Added some options to Lynx

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@6455 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• basicnet/textweb/lynx.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

basicnet/textweb/lynx.xml

@@ -65 +65 @@
     <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
     an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a
-    <command>sendmail</command> command),
-    <xref linkend="slang"/>, and
+    <command>sendmail</command> command), and
     <!-- <ulink
     url="http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/compress/ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z">
@@ -73 +72 @@
     (for a <command>uudecode</command> program)</para>
 
+<!-- Attempt to utilize S-Lang (- -with-screen=slang) leads to a build failure -->
+
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
     <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Lynx"/></para>
@@ -88 +89 @@
             --datadir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-&lynx-version; \
             --with-zlib \
-            --with-bzlib &amp;&amp;
+            --with-bzlib \
+            --with-screen=ncursesw \
+            --enable-locale-charset &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -121 +124 @@
     linking <filename class="libraryfile">libbz2</filename> into
     <application>Lynx</application>.</para>
+
+    <para><parameter>--with-screen=ncursesw</parameter>: This switch enables
+    the use of advanced wide-character support present in the system
+    <application>NCurses</application> library. This is needed for
+    proper display of characters and line wrapping in multibyte locales.</para>
+    
+    <para><parameter>--enable-locale-charset</parameter>: This switch allows
+    <application>Lynx</application> to deduce the proper character encoding
+    for terminal output from the current locale.
+    A configuration step is still needed (see below), but,
+    unlike the situation without this switch, the configuration step becomes
+    the same for all users (without the switch, one would have to specify the
+    display charcter set explicitly). This is important for environments such
+    as a LiveCD, where the amount of system-specific configuration steps has
+    to be reduced to the minimum.</para>
+
+    <para><parameter>--enable-nls</parameter>: This switch allows
+    <application>Lynx</application> to print translated messages (such as
+    questions about cookies and SSL certificates).</para>
 
     <para><option>--with-ssl</option>: This enables support for
@@ -169 +191 @@
       <title>Configuration Information</title>
 
-      <para>Various settings such as proxies can be set in the system-wide
-      <filename>lynx.cfg</filename> file found in
-      <filename class="directory">/etc/lynx</filename>.</para>
+      <para>The proper way to get the display character set is to examine the
+      current locale. However, <application>Lynx</application> does not do
+      this by default. Change this setting:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/#\(LOCALE_CHARSET\):FALSE/\1:TRUE/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>Many other system-wide settings such as proxies can also be set
+      in the <filename>/etc/lynx/lynx.cfg</filename> file.</para>
 
     </sect3>