Patrick Bowen wrote this message on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:54 -0500: > John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >Patrick Bowen wrote this message on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:33 -0500: > > > >>Here's my situation. I drive a truck, and the truck stops have wireless, > >>but no wired, and there's a secure login. So I have to have a working > >>browser to get on the web to do updates/upgrades. > >> > > > >why not get lynx or w3m (I know one if not both support https) compiled > >staticly, and then you don't have to worry about the gui browser issue? > > > > > I tried lynx from the RELEASE cdrom, and it didn't support https. At > least not that version. Links does however. I'll look at w3m, also. look at the lynx-ssl port... > How do I go about statically compiling the non-gui browser? Just "make" > with a knob turned on or what? w/ a clean port I believe you can do: make LDFLAGS=-static but I haven't tested that.. building stand alone, you copy the cc/gcc command that builds the final binary and add the -static option... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Tue Jul 18 2006 - 23:24:38 UTC
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