elinks-full package

Ahmed El-Mahmoudy aelmahmoudy at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Sep 18 23:46:06 BST 2006


There is a source package in main called elinks, which has two binary 
packages: elinks & elinks-lite

The elinks target does not have the full features of elinks compiled in, 
so I decided to make another package elinks-full with full feature 
support (except for a feature that depends on a library that isn't in 
Ubuntu yet). As some of those features depend on other packages that are 
in universe, hence I decided to make a separate source package for 
elinks-full (instead of making elinks-full a binary package which is 
resulting from the elinks source package), that source package is now on 
REVU (http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=3106), and I was advised by 
dholbach to discuss this issue here, as there are two source packages 
sharing the same .orig tarball.

Also there is another issue, the configure script of elinks checks for 
python using a "-lpython" switch (for the compiler), now Ubuntu doesn't 
have libpython.so, instead it has libpython<version>.so, since the 
default version of Python in Dapper & Edgy is 2.4, so I made a patch for 
configure script to change the "-lpython" to "-lpython2.4". I was 
wondering is there another way to make configure script detect the 
correct version of Python to link against ?

Thanks...



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