lynx seems broken (Attn: ncurses maintainer)

[David Rothenberger]

On 2/26/2009 9:55 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> writes:
> 
>> Morten Kjærulff wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
>>> <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>>> Morten Kjærulff wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without
>>>>> telling anything. Then I went to my machine#1 where lynx was already
>>>>> installed, and it worked fine. I then ran setup.exe and it installed a
>>>>> little. After that, lynx just exit without telling anything.
>>>> What does 'lynx; echo $?' say?  What does 'cygcheck lynx' say?
>>> $ lynx;echo $?;cygcheck lynx
>>> 57

% strace lynx -version

... pops up a message saying "The procedure entry point cur_term could 
not be located in the dynamic link library cygncurses-8.dll."

Rolling back libncurses8 and terminfo to the previous release solves the 
problem for me. Recompiling lynx from source with the new libncurses8 
and terminfo packages also fixes the problem.

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