Re: [w3 - url] OT but what is URL

[palmieri@math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri)]

Speaking of the url package, the make process doesn't quite work with
the CVS versions of w3 and url installed.  This is what happens:

cd lisp && make EMACS="emacs"
lispdir="/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" all
make[1]: Entering directory `/user1/palmieri/emacs/pgnus-cvs/lisp'
rm -f *.elc
W3DIR=/user1/palmieri/emacs/w3-cvs/lisp
lispdir=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp srcdir=. emacs -batch -q
-no-site-file -l ./dgnushack.el -f dgnushack-compile
No w3: (file-error Cannot open load file mule-sysdp)
/user1/palmieri/emacs/w3-cvs/lisp/w3-forms.elc


I don't know how serious this error is, because the compilation
process continues from here.  I know the reason for the error:
mule-sysdp is in url/lisp, not w3/lisp, in the cvs versions, and
configure doesn't have a '--with-url' option so I can specify the
appropriate directory.  Someone who knows something about configure
scripts (i.e., not me) want to fix this?


Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> On 07 Feb 2001, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > Having just accessed the CVS repository for w3 I also got url but I
> > don't know what it is.
> 
> URL is, as the name suggests, a library for dealing with URLs.
> 
> Specifically, it's the URL layer that was part of W3 split out and made
> to stand on it's own.
> 
>         Daniel
> 
> -- 
> "Just living is not enough," said the Butterfly.  "One must have sunshine,
> freedom, and a little flower."
>         -- Hans Christian Andersen
> 

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