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General retouching, style and grammar fixes etc.

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Petr Baudis 2005-09-17 03:48:21 +02:00 committed by Petr Baudis
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@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Elinks installation guidelines
./configure && make && make install
Check out the bottom of this file if you're upgrading from Links or an older
ELinks! And be sure to look at doc/ecmascript.txt if you want ECMAScript
(that's JavaScript) support.
ELinks! And be sure to look at doc/ecmascript.txt if you want (experimental)
ECMAScript (that's JavaScript) support.
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@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ snapshot - you don't need to do this there.
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If you want to compile elinks, first check the directory named contrib/, it
If you want to compile ELinks, first check the directory named contrib/, it
may contain patches that are of use to you. If you're interested in any of
them, try to apply them by doing (for each one):
$ patch -p0 < contrib/that-patch
They may not apply - I don't update patches in contrib/ regularly - if you
want, feel free to go ahead and update the patch for the current tree and send
me the newer version.
They may not apply, since I don't update patches in contrib/ regularly - if
you want, feel free to go ahead and update the patch for the current tree and
submit the newer version.
Usually, even after strip, the ELinks binary can grow a lot these days; I plan
on spawning various external files optionally, containing boring stuff like
@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ recommended for users to give a strong preference to OpenSSL whenever possible.
Good luck!
The basic compilation looks like:
The compilation itself looks like:
Unix - just doing:
@ -93,15 +93,15 @@ recommended for users to give a strong preference to OpenSSL whenever possible.
should be enough. However, in some FreeBSD 3 distributions you have to
set CFLAGS=-aout before running ./configure. Also, you may want to
adjust some compile-time options through ./configure - do
./configure --help and it'll print out a list of them. You can more
finely control what's going to be included in the binary in the
features.conf file, and some really detailed tuning can be performed in
the src/setup.h.
adjust some (well, plenty of) compile-time options through ./configure
- do ./configure --help and it'll print out a list of them. You can
finetune what's going to be included in the binary in the features.conf
file, and some really detailed tuning can be performed in src/setup.h.
Also, a nice idea is to compile ELinks outside of the source tree.
Make another directory and run path_to_source_tree/configure from it.
Typically, it looks like:
Also, a nice idea is to compile ELinks outside of the source tree (note
that this might not quite work right now, but we're working on fixing
it). Make another directory and run path_to_source_tree/configure from
it. Typically, it looks like:
$ mkdir ../elinks-build
$ cd ../elinks-build
@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ recommended for users to give a strong preference to OpenSSL whenever possible.
SET MAKE=d:/prg/emx/bin/make.exe
SET EMXOPT=-h100
Dos, Windows - port it by yourself.
DOS, Windows - port it by yourself.
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@ -141,10 +141,11 @@ recommended for users to give a strong preference to OpenSSL whenever possible.
before you run links.
Now, check the contrib/ directory again. There may be some useful config
file examples there, along with a few support tools and some Lua scripts - you
probably want them ;) so just copy the hooks.lua to ~/.elinks, and edit the
file examples there, along with few support tools and some Lua scripts - you
probably want them ;) so just copy hooks.lua to ~/.elinks, and edit the
configuration part - it adds various functionality to ELinks, like
decompression of gzipped files or user-defined protocols.
decompression of gzipped files or HTML code rewriting for ELinks-unfriendly
websites.
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@ -156,11 +157,11 @@ the old (E)Links, so you probably want to make a links symlink pointing to
elinks.
Then, note that configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/elinks and
from ~/.links to ~/.elinks, because the name and format of parts of them were
from ~/.links to ~/.elinks, because the name and format of some of them was
changed:
links.cfg became elinks.conf and you need to convert it with
contrib/conv/conf-links2elinks.pl; html.cfg was merged into elinks.conf
contrib/conv/conf-links2elinks.pl; html.cfg was merged into elinks.conf.
bookmarks are still bookmarks, but you need to convert it with
old_to_new_bookmarks.sh.
@ -169,7 +170,7 @@ old_to_new_bookmarks.sh.
history became globhist and the format is the same.
cookies are still cookies, but you need to convert it with tr " " "\t"
cookies are still cookies, but you need to convert it with tr " " "\t".
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