Re: "@links -dump $< > $@" in Makefile for SA-Exim

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:25:39PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Quoting David Burton ([email protected]):
> 
> > What is 'links' and where can I get it?
> 
> Links is a textmode webbrowser. You can probably get it by installing
> the rpm on your system. Consult your operating systems manual pages on
> how to get new packages installed.
> 
> However it's kinda flakey to depend on links to build sa-exim. I ran
> into the same problem once. I had lynx and w3m (other tekstbrowsers) but
> no links too. Had to install it before i could build the package ;)

Yeah, I used to depend on lynx (which admittedly is bad too), but lynx
changed their ascii output format in a way that broke what I was doing, so I
had to switch to links.
That said, it's only documentation, so unless ou are a packager, you can
remove this from your makefile and read the HTML directly.

Marc
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