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--*-text-*-
-
-This file contains:
-
-- Installation instructions and notes for the Midnight Commander
-- Where to get more information on the Midnight Commander
-- Common problems
-- Information on porting the program
-- Obtaining the missing pieces of the Midnight Commander
-
-
-Installation instructions for the Midnight Commander
-----------------------------------------------------
-
- The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
-various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and creates
-the Makefile. It also creates a file `config.status' that you can run
-in the future to recreate the current configuration.
-
-(Nextstep users, make sure you read the "Compiling under Nextstep"
-section)
-
-To compile this package:
-
-1. Configure the package for your system.
-
- Normally, you just `cd' to the directory containing the package's
-source code and type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old
-version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to
-prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself (under AIX,
-you may need to use ksh instead of sh).
-
- Running `configure' takes a while. While it is running, it
-prints some messages that tell what it is doing. If you don't want to
-see any messages, run `configure' with its standard output redirected
-to `/dev/null'; for example, `./configure >/dev/null'.
-
- To compile the package in a different directory from the one
-containing the source code, you must use a version of `make' that
-supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the
-directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
-the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
-source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. If
-for some reason `configure' is not in the source code directory that
-you are configuring, then it will report that it can't find the source
-code. In that case, run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR',
-where DIR is the directory that contains the source code.
-
- By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
-`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
-installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
-option `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by consistently
-giving a value for the `prefix' variable when you run `make', e.g.,
- make prefix=/usr/gnu
- make prefix=/usr/gnu install
-
- You can specify separate installation prefixes for
-architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If
-you give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH' or set the `make'
-variable `exec_prefix' to PATH, the package will use PATH as the
-prefix for installing programs and libraries. Data files and
-documentation will still use the regular prefix. Normally, all files
-are installed using the same prefix.
-
- The program detects if you have the gpm library installed. If you
-installed the gpm mouse library in a non-standard place, you will need
-to use the --with-gpm-mouse flag with the directory base where you
-installed the gpm package.
-
- `configure' also recognizes the following options:
-
-`--help'
- Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
-
-`--quiet'
-`--silent'
- Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.
-
-`--verbose'
- Print the results of the checks.
-
-`--version'
- Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
- script, and exit.
-
-`--with-debug'
- Enables the built-in memory allocation debugger and forces
- compilation with -Wall. This is an option intended to be used by
- the program developers.
-
-`--without-edit'
- Configures the program to be compiled without the built-in file
- editor. The built-in editor is compiled in by default.
-
-`--with-ext2undel[=PATH]'
- On systems that use the Extended 2 file system and have the
- libext2fs.a library available, this compiles into the Midnight
- Commander the support code for recovering deleted files (the
- undel virtual file system).
- Use =PATH if libext2fs.a is installed in a non-standard place.
- The configure will append `lib' and `include' to find the ext2fs
- libraries and include files respectively.
-
-`--with-gpm-mouse[=PATH]'
- Use this flag if your GPM mouse package cannot be detected by the
- configure. Use =PATH if it is installed in a non-standard place.
- The configure will append `lib' and `include' to find the libgpm.a
- and gpm.h files respectively.
-
-`--without-gpm-mouse'
- Use this flag to disable GPM mouse support (e.g. if you want to
- use mouse only on X terminals).
-
-`--with-hsc'
- Compiles support into the ftp virtual file system to support the
- HSC firewall.
-
-`--with-mmap'
- Needed when compiling under AIX if you want the fast viewer.
-
-`--with-sco'
- This option is used to compile on SCO: it turns on SCO-specific
- code, i.e. disables the terminal resizing mechanism, uses the
- BSD-like pseudoterminal handling, adds screen-saving capabilities
- on console, etc.
-
-`--with-subshell[=optional]', `--without-subshell'
- The subshell support is by default turned on, you can disable
- this by using the --without-subshell option. If you pass the
- =optional parameter, then the subshell support is turned off by
- default, to turn it on, you have to specify the `-U' flag when
- running the program.
-
-`--with-termnet'
- Enables the network support with the Term package.
-
-`--with-tk' [WARNING: X code is not released]
- This option enables including the Tcl/Tk version.
-
-`--with-tk-includes=DIR' [WARNING: X code is not released]
- Lets you specify the place where you have your Tcl/Tk headers installed.
- It should be a directory containing tcl.h and tk.h.
-
-`--with-tk-libraries=DIR' [WARNING: X code is not released]
- Lets you specify the place where you have your Tcl/Tk libraries -
- libtcl and libtk.
-
-`--with-xview' [WARNING: X code is not released]
- This option enables including the XView version.
-
-`--with-xview-includes=DIR' [WARNING: X code is not released]
- Lets you specify the place where you have your xview headers installed.
- It should be the directory, which has subdirectories xview and
- hopefuly xview_private.
-
-`--with-xview-libraries=DIR' [WARNING: X code is not released]
- Lets you specify the place where you have your xview libraries -
- libolgx and libxview.
-
-`--with-xv-bindir=DIR' [WARNING: X code is not released]
- Lets you specify the place where program mxc will be installed.
- Default is somewhere in your XView binaries directory,
- $OPENWINHOME/bin.
-
-`--without-dusum'
- This option disables a feature of the Midnight Commander, which is
- forking the du command with the -s option when you want to calculate
- directory sizes.
-
-`--without-vfs'
- This option disables the Virtual File System switch code in the
- Midnight Commander and uses the standard file system calls for
- file access. If you specify this option you will not get the
- transparent tar File system manipulation as well nor the
- networked Midnight Commander file system.
-
-You may also tell configure which display manager you want to use with
-the Midnight Commander. The configure script will use SLang as default,
-but you can override this by using any of the following flags (please
-note that slang is included as part of the distribution),
-
-`--with-slang' (default)
- This is used to configure the program to use the SLang screen
- manager. This is included as part of the Midnight Commander,
- you don't need it installed on your system. If SLang is installed
- on your system it will be used if possible. You can force usage of
- the included SLang with the `--with-included-slang' option.
- Slang is the only library that will let you resize the Midnight
- Commander window on an xterm.
-
- This option will usually try to use the terminfo database if it
- is available, otherwise it will use the termcap database. At
- compile time, you may force the use the terminal database with
- the `--with-termcap' and `--with-terminfo' options (both options
- automaticly turn `--with-included-slang' on).
-
-`--with-ncurses[=directory]'
- Use this flag (either with or without the =directory part), if
- you want to compile with ncurses instead of the default SLang.
-
- Use the =directory part if your ncurses is not installed in any of the
- places configure will check (/usr/include, /usr/include/ncurses,
- /usr/local/include and /usr/local/include/ncurses).
- The argument to this flag is the base directory where the ncurses
- files are located. The configure will append lib and include to
- find the libncurses.a and ncurses.h file respectively. For
- example, if you have installed ncurses under /gnu/lib and
- /gnu/include, you specify: --with-ncurses=/gnu
-
- You will need the ncurses package only if your system does not
- provide a compatible curses. If after compiling, the program
- says that it can't resolve the has_colors function, then you need
- the ncurses package or you may always go back to the included SLang
- screen manager.
-
-`--with-vcurses[=directory]'
- Use this flag to force the Midnight Commander to use a SystemV
- type ncurses, the optional directory specifies where should
- the C compiler find the include files.
-
-`--with-sunos-curses'
- You use this flag on SunOS machines if you want to use SunOS 4.x
- curses instead of ncurses. You don't need this flag if you don't
- have ncurses installed: it's only needed to force the usage of
- SunOS curses over ncurses.
-
- `configure' also accepts and ignores some other options.
-
- On systems that require unusual options for compilation or linking
-that the package's `configure' script does not know about, you can give
-`configure' initial values for variables by setting them in the
-environment. In Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the
-command line like this:
-
- CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure
-
-On systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this:
-
- env CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure
-
- Here are the `make' variables that you might want to override with
-environment variables when running `configure'.
-
- For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the
-value that `configure' would choose:
-
- - Variable: CC
- C compiler program. The default is `cc'.
-
- - Variable: CFLAGS
- The default flags used to build the program.
-
- - Variable: INSTALL
- Program to use to install files. The default is `install' if you
- have it, `cp' otherwise.
-
- For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to
-the value that `configure' chooses:
-
- - Variable: LIBS
- Libraries to link with, in the form `-lfoo -lbar...'.
-
- If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage
-you to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and
-mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the README so we
-can include them in the next release.
-
-2. Type `make' to compile the package.
-
-3. If the package comes with self-tests and you want to run them,
-type `make check'. If you're not sure whether there are any, try it;
-if `make' responds with something like
- make: *** No way to make target `check'. Stop.
-then the package does not come with self-tests.
-
-4. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and
-documentation.
-If your system is Linux, then install installs the Linux console screen
-saver as well.
-
-5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
-source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
-Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions
-(if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that
-`configure' created), type `make realclean'. If you want to clean the source
-tree completely, so that it contains only those files that should be
-packaged in the archive, issue `make distclean'. If you've run configure in
-a different directory than the source tree, distclean won't remove your *.o
-and linked programs in that directory.
-
-6. The Midnight Commander allows you to be kept on the directory you
-were when you quit the program, this is done with a shell function,
-the man page has more information about this. If you want to let the
-install program make the change to your /etc/profile or your
-~/.profile or ~/.bashrc, then type: `make mcfninstall'.
-
- The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
-called `autoconf'. You only need it if you want to regenerate
-`configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
-
-Compiling under NeXTStep
-------------------------
-
-These instructions were provided by Gregor Hoffleit
-<flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.DE>, he recommends configuring the
-program like this:
-
-
-export CC="cc -posix"
-configure --without-subshell --with-termcap
-Edie config.h and make sure you have #undef HAVE_GETWD
-make
-
-
-\f
-- Where to get more information on the Midnight Commander
----------------------------------------------------------
-
-Janne Kukonlehto set up a WWW page, here is the URL:
-http://mc.blackdown.org/mc/
-
-We also a set of mailing lists for the program:
-
-mc-announce: Announcements of new version of the Midnight Commander.
-mc-digest: Digest version of the mc list.
-mc-patches: Patches by mail (also on the ftp site).
-mc: Discussion on the Midnight Commander file manager.
-mc-devel: For discussion between the developers of the program.
-
-to subscribe to the mailing lists, send a message to:
-
-majordomo@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
-
-with the following text in the body of the message:
-
-subscribe <list-name> [address]
-
-The address is optional and list-name is one of the above list names
-(mc, mc-announce, mc-patches or mc-digest).
-
-\f
-Notes about the Midnight Commander installation
-------------------------------------------------
-
-The Midnight Commander has been run in the following configurations:
-
-i386-*-linux
-sparc-*-linux
-alpha-*-linux
-mips-dec-ultrix4.3
-mips-dec-{open,net}bsd1.0
-mips-sgi-irix5.2
-mips-sgi-irix5.3
-rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5
-sparc-sun-sunos4.1
-sparc-sun-netbsd1.0
-sparc-sun-solaris2.3
-hppa-hp-hpux9
-hppa-hp-hpux7
-m68k-apple-aux
-mc88110-aviion-dgux5.4
-i386-*-{bsdi2,freebsd}
-
-Since the Midnight Commander is configured via the GNU autoconf
-program, it's not difficult to run it in other operating systems.
-
-If you're using AIX, with the cc6000 compiler, you have to specify the
-`--with-mmap' command line option.
-
-You will need GNU C (or an ANSI C Compiler) and optionally a color
-curses library (ncurses is a good choice). The Midnight Commander now
-comes with the Slang screen manager, a fast screen manager, so ncurses
-is not required anymore unless you want to use it.
-
-Many Linux systems ship with ncurses version 1.9.9e, however, we recommend
-ncurses 4.1 or above, since the former version does not support resizing
-of the xterm window.
-
-Since version 0.9 the Midnight Commander comes with mouse support on
-xterms and in the Linux console. In order to take advantage of the
-mouse support on the Linux console you will need the gpm mouse server
-(see the section "Obtaining the Missing Pieces" in this file).
-
-Once you get the Mouse Server, compile it and install it, then you
-will have to specify the `--with-gpm-mouse' flag to the configure
-program if you installed it in a non-standard directory. If you
-installed the gpm package under /usr or /usr/local, you don't need to
-specify this flag; configure will find gpm for you. The support for
-mice on xterms is always compiled in.
-
-We are working on further enhancements to the program, but we're not
-sure which ones must go first. If you would like to point us in the
-Right Direction we will be glad to hear from you (you could check the
-file TODO included with this distribution for the current projects).
-
-If you happen to find an undocumented feature that doesn't do what you
-expected, please drop us a note telling us as much as you can about
-the problem you're experiencing (to miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx).
-
-\f
-Porting the program
--------------------
-
-Random notes on porting to other architectures.
-
-The Midnight Commander uses now by default the Slang library for
-handling the display. If you can't port Slang (which should be a
-pretty trivial job), you may want to attempt using ncurses (the
-Midnight Commander can use ncurses as well as the display engine).
-
-If you don't want to install ncurses and your OS is a SystemV Release
-4 variant, maybe the curses supplied with your system will do the
-work. If you experience display problems, then it means that we are
-dealing with a buggy implementation of curses. You have two options:
-one, download ncurses and recompile with ncurses or recompile all your
-source code with the symbol BUGGY_CURSES defined. But you can always
-switch to the default SLang screen manager.
-
-The fast way to do this is to:
-
-make clean; make XINC=-DBUGGY_CURSES
-
-\f
-Obtaining the missing pieces of the Midnight Commander
-------------------------------------------------------
-
-The Midnight Commander will build without requiring you to get any
-other software packages, however, you may be interested in enhancing
-the Midnight Commander environment with some of these:
-
-o Terminal database
-
- There are many incomplete terminal databases out there, however, a
- complete terminfo is bundled with ncurses. (It is simple to generate
- the termcap database using the infocmp utility in ncurses).
-
- Some terminfo data are included with the mc distribution (lib/*.ti).
- Particularly linux, xterm and vt100. Use e.g. ''tic linux.ti'' to
- use them.
-
- If you want to run mc on xterm/color_xterm/ansi_xterm (not rxvt), then
- you might read lib/README.xterm for further information.
-
-o In the past the Midnight Commander required the NCurses library to
- build, now it's optional. You can get Ncurses from
-
- ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu
- ftp.clark.net:/pub/dickey/ncurses
-
-o The GPM Mouse Server is available at:
-
- iride.unipv.it:/pub/gpm
-
-o The X Windows System libraries are only used if you are going to
- build the X11 versions of the program. Please note that this code
- is not finished, so it's only useful if you want to look at what we
- are doing or want to help in one of the two X11 versions.
-
-o The XView library can be obtained from (currently the newest is
- XView3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz):
-
- ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx:/Midnight/devel/XView.libs
- ftp.x.org:/contrib/libraries
- ftp.cvut.cz:/pub/x11/contrib/libraries
-
- - Linux/ELF shared binaries:
-
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/libs/X/xview
- ftp.cvut.cz:/pub/linux/sunsite/libs/X/xview
-
-o The Tcl/Tk libraries can be obtained from:
-
- ftp.smli.com:/pub/tcl
- ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl/ftp.smli.com
- ftp.cvut.cz:/pub/tcl/ftp.smli.com
-
- - Linux/ELF shared binaries:
-
- ftp.ods.com:/pub/linux
- ftp.cvut.cz:/pub/linux/ods
-
-o The Xpm library (used by the XView version) can be obtained from
- (currently xpm-3.4f.tar.gz):
-
- koala.inria.fr:/pub/xpm
- ftp.x.org:/contrib/libraries
- ftp.cvut.cz:/pub/x11/contrib/libraries
-
- - Linux/ELF shared binaries:
-
- ftp.ctd.comsat.com:/pub/linux/ELF
- ftp.cvut.cz:/pub/linux/comsat
-
-To get the mouse support working on the Linux console:
-
-If you're using Linux version >= 1.1.34, then you will have to choose yes
-to selection when you compile your kernel. If your Linux version is
-older than this one, you may try to apply one of the patches included in
-the gpm package.
-
-And the GNU C Compiler may be obtained from the following sites:
-
- ASIA: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:/ftpsync/prep,
- cair.kaist.ac.kr:/pub/gnu
- AUSTRALIA: archie.au:/gnu (archie.oz or archie.oz.au for ACSnet)
- AFRICA: ftp.sun.ac.za:/pub/gnu
- MIDDLE-EAST: ftp.technion.ac.il:/pub/unsupported/gnu
- EUROPE: ftp.cvut.cz:/pub/gnu, irisa.irisa.fr:/pub/gnu,
- ftp.univ-lyon1.fr:pub/gnu, ftp.mcc.ac.uk,
- unix.hensa.ac.uk:/pub/uunet/systems/gnu,
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/gnu, ftp.win.tue.nl, ugle.unit.no,
- ftp.denet.dk, ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/gnu,
- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, ftp.eunet.ch,
- nic.switch.ch:/mirror/gnu, nic.funet.fi:/pub/gnu, isy.liu.se,
- ftp.stacken.kth.se, ftp.luth.se:/pub/unix/gnu, archive.eu.net
- CANADA: ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/mirror2/gnu
- USA: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/gnu, labrea.stanford.edu,
- ftp.kpc.com:/pub/mirror/gnu, ftp.cs.widener.edu, uxc.cso.uiuc.edu,
- col.hp.com:/mirrors/gnu, ftp.cs.columbia.edu:/archives/gnu/prep,
- gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU, ftp.uu.net:/systems/gnu
-
-
-Unsupported options to configure:
----------------------------------
-`--with-bsd-curses'
- If you don't want to use ncurses and are using an Ultrix box, you
- can use this switch. Be aware that ncurses is a better option
- than the curses included in Ultrix.
-
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