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-*-text-*-
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Read the INSTALL file for the complete instructions.
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GNU Midnight Commander requires glib. Currently only the 1.2.x
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series are supported. You may already have glib installed, but if you
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don't, take it from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/
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GNU Midnight Commander by default will use the S-Lang screen manager.
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It tries the S-Lang library installed on the system, but if it's not
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found, the included S-Lang sources are used. It is also possible to
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use ncurses as the screen manager. Note that syntax highlighting in
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the editor is currently unavailable with ncurses.
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1. Configure the package for your system.
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Normally, you just `cd' to the package main directory and type
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`./configure'.
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The most often needed options to configure are following:
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`--prefix=PATH'
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By default, `make install' will install the package's files
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in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. or to `/usr/bin',
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`/usr/man', etc. depending on the location of an old mc binary.
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If you have none in your system, default will be `/usr/local'.
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You can specify an installation prefix other than default by
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giving `configure' the option `--prefix=PATH'.
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`--with-included-slang'
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Don't try the S-Lang library installed in the system - use the
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included S-Lang sources. The included library is rather old,
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by it works very well on many terminals.
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`--with-ncurses[=PATH]'
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Use the flag without =PATH if you want to compile with ncurses
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Use this flag with =PATH part, if you want to compile with ncurses
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and your ncurses is not installed in any of the places configure
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checks (/usr/include, /usr/include/ncurses, /usr/local/include and
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/usr/local/include/ncurses). The configure script will append
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`lib' and `include' to find the libncurses.a and ncurses.h
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files respectively.
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`--with-gpm-mouse[=PATH]'
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Use this flag if your GPM mouse package cannot be detected by the
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configure. Use =PATH if it is installed in a non-standard place.
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The configure will append `lib' and `include' to find the libgpm.a
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and gpm.h files respectively. Note that GPM is only available on
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GNU/Linux systems.
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You may also want to specify CFLAGS for the compiler, even if it finds
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itself some defaults by typing e.g.
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`CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure'
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2. Type `make' to compile the package.
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3. Type `make install' (as root) to install programs, data files, and
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documentation. If you're on a GNU/Linux system, this will install the
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`cons.saver' utility, which allows the Midnight Commander to save and
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restore the screen contents. If you're making a mc binary distribution
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for other people and want to tar the whole binary later, you may want
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to specify `make install DESTDIR=PATH', which will make PATH the root
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for installation.
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3a. Type `make mcfninstall' to get an interactive program check if you
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want to define an useful alias for the Midnight Commander.
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4. Type `mc' and enjoy!
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