On Tue, 6 May 2003, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Beaker wrote:
>
> > Could someone please tell me how to enable mouse support in Lynx? I've built
> > ncurses from pkgsrc already and have the following lines in ../lynx/Makefile:
> > # for certain settings of --with-screen.
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-screen=${LYNX_SCREEN_LIB}
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --enable-default-colors
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --enable-scrollbar
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --enable-ncurses
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --enable-use_mouse
> >
> > I've also set USE_MOUSE:TRUE in lynx.cfg - STILL I can't seem to get the mouse
> > to work. BTW, this is lynx-2.8.4.1.4 with NetBSD-1.6/sparc on a Sparc 5. I had
> > the mouse working on 1.5.2/sparc2, but I don't remember what (if anything) I
> > did make it work.
>
> 1) Is it actually using ncurses? Check "ldd /usr/pkg/bin/lynx". If the
> binary isn't linked against either ncurses or slang, there's no chance
> for -use_mouse to work. I think you have to set USE_NCURSES somewhere
> to get buildlink to actually offer ncurses to the build,...

I just realized that Thomas Dickey's follow-up went to me and not to
the list.... As Thomas Dickey poined out, --enable-ncurses is a no-op.
To build the package to use ncurses, you have to set, at the least,
${LYNX_SCREEN_LIB} to "ncurses", and ${USE_NCURSES} to "YES".