compiling mc under ubuntu 12.04

[Milan Čermák]

Hi Frank,
most distros don't install header files for various libraries and/or 
static libraries (for example) by default. Without those, no complex 
source code will compile (including Midnight Commander).
Having gcc and libc-dev installed is not enough in most cases (as you 
found out yourself).

If I remember correctly Debian/Ubuntu has three files for each source. 
The original tarball, the distro specific changes and a description 
file. The description file tells all the building requirements to make a 
package just as the maintainer did.
There is an automated tool (whose name I don't remember) which takes 
this description file and creates a build environment based on that.

Regards,
Milan

Dne 22.6.2012 10:34, frank napsal(a):
> Compiling the latest mc under Ubuntu 12.04 just took me one hour of
> chasing dependencies and creating symlinks.
>
> And still I have some 100 warnings "...input unused because linking not
> done" - which I'm not going to track down.
>
> Don't you think your latest release should _always_ compile straight
> from the box under the major Linux distro?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> frank
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