Software update: lynx 2.8.7 dev.7

Lynx is a textual web browser and is included with most GNU/Linux distributions. The program was conceived by Lou Montulli, Charles Rezac and Michael Grobe within the Academic Computing Services division at the University of Kansas. It was initially intended to disseminate information across the university campus, but was transformed into a text-based web browser by Lou Montulli in 1993. Browsing with lynx has several limitations because the browser is not able to display pictures and images, the mouse is not supported, frames are not displayed practically and all kinds of scripts and extensions are not available. The developers have released the seventh development version of lynx 2.8.7 with the following list of changes:

Version 2.8.7 dev.7:

• restore top-level descrip.mms due to error in patch -TD

Version 2.8.7 dev.6:

• update cs.po from http://translationproject.org/latest/lynx/
• add a script for Inno Setup, incorporate/adapt configuration files from an installer created by Claudio Santambrogio -TD
• use struct dirent64 when it is declared via configure script -TD
• additional def7_uni.tbl conversions (patch by Tim Larson).
• quiet a message in HTFWriter.c -RS
• improve IsOurSymlink() from 2.8.7dev.5 changes, allowing the symbolic link to be relative to the directory -RS, TD
• rewrote several autoconf macros to use extended searches in non-system locations, ie, AM_ICONV, AM_WITH_NLS, CF_GNUTLS, CF_SSL, CF_WITH_BZLIB and CF_WITH_ZLIB (prompted by LV comments) -TD
• modify popup for externals added in 2.8.4dev.20 to number the entries if keypad mode is set to one of the numbered forms -PBM
• free leaks of LYLeaks.c, to make it simpler to check it with a second tool such as valgrind -TD
• reroot cached_styles[][] to use memory allocated to match screen size (report by RS) -TD
• fix typo in SGML.C -RS
• correct display_lines when -notitle is used while in novice mode -PBM, TD
• add -child_relaxed option (patch by Andrew Belov).
• minor typos from OpenBSD (patch by Daniel Dickman).
• modify VMS build-scripts to accept “TCPIP” parameter, for TCPIP Services (discussion with Dominic Stephens) -TD
• add IDE files for building with Visual Studio 6, 2003 and 2005 Express. These are respectively the files in BUILD-VS6, BUILD-VS2003 and BUILD-VS2005X -TD
• modify def7_uni.tbl to display U+2212 without a leading blank (Debian #428536) -TD
• add definition for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS in CF_LARGEFILE, needed for Solaris 64-bit compiles (from ncurses) -TD
• change order of includes (-I options) in makefiles so build-tree is found first (report by PBM) -TD
• ensure MIME_LIBDIR has a trailing “/” -TD
• add new -trace-mask codes to cleanup the trace file a little -TD
• remove redundant call to show_cert_issuer() -TG
• correct typo in Lynx_users_guide.html (prompted by TG’s patch) -TD
• modify HTDoRead() to add elapsed time to its debug trace -TD
• fix a case in LYGetfile.c which was broken by 2.8.7dev.3 changes to use LYTildeExpand() to expand embedded “~” -TG
• updated config.guess (2007-05-17), config.sub (2007-06-28)