Just got mc-4.6.0-pre1

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

> >> 'make install' didn't do vfs directory. I had to cd into it and do
> >> 'make' manually. Just missing from the Makefile.

To me it sounded like make didn't descend into that directory, not that it
failed there.  Please try to be more precise next time.

>   Screen manager:             SLang with terminfo

Ok.

> In file included from ../src/tty.h:27,
>                  from utilvfs.h:3,
>                  from tcputil.c:49:

../src/tty.h:27 is only used if USE_NCURSES is defined.

This means that you manages to tell the configure script to use S-Lang and 
ncurses in the same time.  I made some simplifications since then, but 
I still cannot guarantee that it cannot happen.

> It seems #define USE_NCURSES 1 is set if I use --with-ncurses=no or 
> --without-ncurses.  

This has been fixed.

> When I first got the pre1 source, I used a ./configure command from
> 4.5.55 that had -with-<package>=no on some things because it used to
> compile a bunch of stuff in that I didn't want, so I manually unset
> them.

That's very interesting.  What are those things?  Could you please post 
the complete command line?  It's much more important than your Duron750.

> ./configure --help says that you can use --with-<package>=no or 
> --without-<package>.
> I don't think I should monkey with the configure scripts, thats DEEP MAGIC.

We had this discussion before in the list.  I haven't done any systematic
foolproofing yet, apart from recognizing --without-ncurses.

> Again, you are correct. I wasn't sure what auto-menus meant, and it never
> seemed to do anything.  I'm still not sure what it does.

. From "man mc":

  Auto menus.  If this option is enabled, the user menu will be invoked at
  startup.  Useful for building menus for non-unixers.

> >If you have any details, please post them.  Maybe what you mean is a
> >simple bug that doesn't require rewriting the whole color support :-)
> >
> Yes, it's a little bug somewhere.  Four lines in menu.c. See attachment.

Not at all.  You patch changes the default appearance.  Menu entries and 
menu separators use different colors by design, and I'm not going to break 
this design just to reduce the number of color pairs used in the menu.

Shortage of color pairs is artificial.  It can be fixed, and it will be 
fixed.  Just talking about the same thing is not going to help.

Next time you submit a patch please describe what it does.  User-visible 
changes are especially important.  Ideally I'd like to test if your patch 
matches your description instead of finding out _what_ your patch does.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin