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-
- 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.
-
- 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-gpm-mouse=PATH'
- Use this flag if your GPM mouse package is not installed in
- a standard place. The configure will append `lib' and
- `include' to find the libgpm.a and gpm.h files respectively.
-
- `--with-mmap'
- Needed when compiling under AIX if you want the fast viewer.
-
- `--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.
-
- `--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.
-
- `--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.
-
- `--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.
-
- `--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.
-
- `--with-sco'
- This option is used to compile on SCO: it disables the terminal
- resizing mechanism and uses the BSD-like pseudoterminal handling.
-
- 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.
- 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.
-
- `--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'.
-
-
- - Where to get more information on the Midnight Commander
- ---------------------------------------------------------
-
- Janne Kukonlehto set up a WWW page, here is the URL:
- http://stekt.oulu.fi/~jtklehto/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).
-
-
- Notes about the Midnight Commander installation
- ------------------------------------------------
-
- The Midnight Commander has been run in the following configurations:
-
- i386-linux-linux1.0
- i386-linux-linux1.1
- i386-linux-linux1.2
- i386-linux-linux1.3
- mips-dec-ultrix4.3
- mips-dec-netbsd1.0
- 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
-
-
- 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 1.8.0 or 1.8.1; the
- Midnight Commander may run with it, but some bugs in this version of
- NCurses sometimes make the display look strange (which is not the
- intention).
-
- VERY IMPORTANT NCURSES NOTE: On some architectures, the default
- compilation mode for ncurses it to include the buggy OPT_MVCUR in the
- Makefile. If that is the case, please remove it before compiling.
-
- 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).
-
-
- Porting the program
- -------------------
-
- Random notes on porting to other architectures.
-
- The program requires normally ncurses. 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
-
- The correct thing is that you add a detection case to the file
- ncurses.h (provided with this program) and again, run: make clean;
- make;
-
- If you add the detection case, please, send me a patch, so that I
- could include it in future versions of the program.
-
-
- 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, you can get
- the official termcap and terminfo database from the following URL:
-
- http://www.ccil.org/~esr/ncurses.html
-
- 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 and it's not the recommended way of using
- it, but in case you feel nostalgic, you can get the NCurses library
- from:
-
- ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx:/Midnight
- ftp.netcom.com:/pub/zm/zmbenhal
-
- When compiling ncurses, please check that you don't define
- OPT_MVCUR since it's buggy.
-
- 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.
-
-