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Section 5 - Building the Base System Tools

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W3M

Name: W3M
Summary: A simple console web-browser/pager
License: ISC Public License
Version: 0.5.3
URL: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/-/archive/v0.5.3+git20230121/w3m-v0.5.3+git20230121.tar.bz2

Average Build Time: less than 0.1 SBU
Used Install Space: 2.6 MiB

Preparation

W3M requires a couple patches to its code to build and run correctly. Apply them using the commands below:

patch -Np1 -i ../patches/w3m/0001-Fix-OOB-access-due-to-multiple-backspaces.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/w3m/0001-Update-German-message-catalogue.patch

Configuration

To configure W3M for install into the build root, run the following command:

find -name CVS -exec rm -Rf "{}" "+"
export CFLAGS="-DUSE_BUFINFO -DOPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN -D_GNU_SOURCE $(getconf LFS_CFLAGS) -fno-strict-aliasing `ncursesw6-config --cflags` -fPIE -std=gnu11"
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="`ncursesw6-config --libs` -pie"
./configure --prefix=/usr                       \
            --libdir=/usr/lib64                 \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib64             \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man             \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/w3m-0.5.3   \
            --sysconfdir=/etc                   \
            --enable-ipv6                       \
		    --enable-alarm                      \
		    --enable-ansi-color                 \
		    --enable-digest-auth                \
		    --enable-external-uri-loader        \
		    --enable-gopher                     \
		    --enable-history                    \
		    --enable-image=fb                   \
		    --enable-keymap=lynx                \
		    --enable-m17n                       \
		    --enable-mouse                      \
		    --enable-nls                        \
		    --enable-nntp                       \
		    --enable-sslverify                  \
		    --enable-unicode                    \
		    --disable-w3mmailer

Compilation and Installation

To compile W3M, run the following command:

make

There is no test suite to run for this package.

Finally, to install W3M into the build tree, run the following command:

make install install-helpfile
install -v -m 755 -o root -g root Bonus/*.cgi /usr/lib64/w3m/cgi-bin/
unset CFLAGS
unset CXXFLAGS
unset LDFLAGS

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Installed Programs	w3m, w3mman

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