On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 08:39:33PM +0100, Zefram wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > >This report doesn't indicate a version where Lynx behaves as you expect. > > Strangely, this misbehaviour doesn't seem to have arrived with a specific > Lynx version, but developed over time. I'm sure that the present version > worked fine on these websites when it was first installed here a year and > a half ago. It was definitely working for <https://www.theguardian.com> > two weeks ago, for which it's not working now. Presumably this version > always had the bug, but it's being triggered by some unusual environmental > condition that has changed over time. So I never noticed this bug with > the previously-installed Lynx version, whatever that was, but I don't > see any reason to think that that version actually lacked the bug. > > If you can't reproduce the problem, I could have a go at compiling a > bunch of Lynx versions from source to see which ones do this.
That might help. Also, steps to reproduce the problem.
When I compile my own (equivalent to Debian's package), I use this script:
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: cfg-lynx-debian,v 1.3 2013/10/03 08:37:39 tom Exp $
# settings corresponding to Debian package for lynx-cur
DEBOP="--enable-debug --enable-warnings --disable-echo"
env cf_cv_SYSTEM_MAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail \
COMPRESS=/usr/bin/compress BZIP2=/bin/bzip2 UNZIP=/usr/bin/unzip \
ZIP=/usr/bin/zip \
LIBS="-lbsd" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--sysconfdir=/etc/lynx-cur --localstatedir=/var \
--libdir=/etc/lynx-cur --enable-8bit-toupper --enable-externs \
--enable-nsl-fork --enable-cgi-links --enable-exec-links \
--enable-exec-scripts --enable-persistent-cookies --enable-nls \
--enable-gzip-help --enable-prettysrc --enable-source-cache \
--enable-cjk --enable-default-colors --enable-nested-tables \
--enable-japanese-utf8 --enable-ipv6 \
--enable-forms-options --enable-justify-elts --enable-partial \
--enable-read-eta --enable-scrollbar --enable-syslog \
--with-zlib --with-bzlib --without-included-gettext \
--with-screen=ncursesw --enable-justify-elts \
--with-gnutls=/usr --enable-persistent-cookies \
${DEBOP} $*
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