Detect alternatives to w3m

[Bill Medland]

On October 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Bill Medland wrote:
> > Having just fallen over this might I suggest that the configure check
> > also checks for lynx; if lynx is not installed then even though
> > docbook2txt is present it fails.
> >
> > Or is there a version of docbook2txt that doesn't depend upon lynx?
>
> I have no idea how docbook2txt works, but we can't check for the entire
> graph of dependencies when checking for a feature. We have rpm(1) & friends
> for that task.

It isn't a rpm dependency on my system (RedHat 8.0), at least I presume it 
isn't since I didn't have any difficulty ending up with docbook2txt but no 
lynx.

OK.  I guess it is enough to make people aware that if they try to build the 
documentation now and they get back a message that "No way to convert HTML to 
text found" then it probably means they need to install lynx.

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