Midnight Commander on Solaris 7 (was Appreciation for Midnight Co mmander)

[Peter Tootill]

Hi Pavel ...


After that encouragement I had another go... This time with 4.5.99a and
success :-) - but not without some learning opportunities!

The first problem was that I didn't have glib installed. That's probably
what defeated me last time. Now I knew enough to go to sunfreeware.com and
download a copy. Then I had to install that... Next, there were still
compile problems, this time due to glib not being in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. So I
had to track down where it was installed and work out what the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH entry should be (/usr/local/lib, in my case). For me, this
was not a trivial process!!!

With those things sorted out, it compiled!!!

It's almost working but I have some keyboard issues, which learn keys won't
fix.
I don't have access to the systems at the moment so I can't check it out
completely but I know that F1 doesn't work (Solaris gets that one - no big
deal).

I will report back when I have a chance to do a full check on what is
working and what isn't

Rgrds

Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:proski at gnu.org]
> Sent: 21 November 2001 17:58
> To: Peter Tootill
> Cc: mc at gnome.org
> Subject: RE: Appreciation for Midnight Commander
> 
> 
> Hello, Peter!
> 
> > The talk of a Windows port made me get quite excited!!
> > 
> > I have tried compiling on Solaris 2.7 but it  failed - much to my
> > disappointment (I'm not much of a compiler and I didn't 
> have much time and I
> > wasn't on this list then, so I didn't report back, maybe 
> this is well known
> > already??)
> 
> Please be assured that I would never release a new version of Midnight
> Commander with _known_ compile problems on any UNIX or POSIX 
> system (BeOS
> doesn't count due to select() braindamage).
> 
> Please report the bug as described in the following documents:
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
> 



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