Debian Bug report logs - #78948
lynx: [patch] doesn't work w/o a terminal in -dump mode

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joey@valinux.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: lynx: [patch] doesn't work w/o a terminal in -dump mode

Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:02:17 -0800

Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.3-1
Severity: normal

Lynx should be usable in -dump mode w/o a controlling terminal, and even if
TERM is not set properly. It is currently not. This means that for example,
debhelper which uses it to convert some html changelogs, makes packages
that will not build properly in an autobuilder, which lacks a controlling
terminal. Here is another symptom of the same problem:

joey@gumdrop:/tmp/lynx-2.8.3>TERM= ./lynx -dump http://slashdot.org/
Unknown terminal: 
Check the TERM environment variable.
Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database.
Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired
termcap entry.

Here is a patch:

diff -ur old/lynx-2.8.3/src/LYMain.c lynx-2.8.3/src/LYMain.c
--- old/lynx-2.8.3/src/LYMain.c	Sun Apr 23 18:44:03 2000
+++ lynx-2.8.3/src/LYMain.c	Wed Dec  6 13:00:03 2000
@@ -1444,11 +1444,6 @@
     }
     fclose(fp);
 
-#if defined(USE_KEYMAPS) && defined(USE_SLANG)
-    if (-1 == lynx_initialize_keymaps ())
-	exit (-1);
-#endif
-
     /*
      * Make sure we have the character sets declared.
      *	This will initialize the CHARTRANS handling. - KW
@@ -1585,6 +1580,13 @@
     for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
 	parse_arg(&argv[i], &i);
     }
+
+#if defined(USE_KEYMAPS) && defined(USE_SLANG)
+    if (! dump_output_immediately) {
+            if (-1 == lynx_initialize_keymaps ())
+                exit (-1);
+    }
+#endif
 
     /*
      *  Process any stdin-derived arguments for a lone "-"  which we've

BTW, lynx does not build with -g, and should.

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux gumdrop 2.2.14-va.4.4-i686-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 5 14:22:08 PDT 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages lynx depends on:
ii  debconf        0.5.32         Debian configuration management system
ii  libc6          2.2-4          GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  slang1         1.4.1-1        The S-Lang programming library - runtime ver
ii  zlib1g         1.1.3-11       compression library - runtime
	^^^ (Provides virtual package libz1)

Message #30 received at 64632-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

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Subject: These bugs are already fixed

Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:53:56 +0200 (CEST)

These bugs are already fixed in lynx in unstable/testing. Thanks to
everyone for the NMUs!

cu
Adrian

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