Author: bdubbs Date: 2012-04-22 14:14:16 -0600 (Sun, 22 Apr 2012) New Revision: 9980
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/mc.xml trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Log: Updated to mc-4.8.3 Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/mc.xml =================================================================== --- trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/mc.xml 2012-04-22 19:09:59 UTC (rev 9979) +++ trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/mc.xml 2012-04-22 20:14:16 UTC (rev 9980) @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> %general-entities; - <!ENTITY mc-download-http "http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-&mc-version;.tar.gz";> - <!ENTITY mc-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/util/shell/mc-&mc-version;.tar.gz";> - <!ENTITY mc-md5sum "18b20db6e40480a53bac2870c56fc3c4"> - <!ENTITY mc-size "3.8 MB"> - <!ENTITY mc-buildsize "29 MB"> - <!ENTITY mc-time "0.4 SBU"> + <!ENTITY mc-download-http "https://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/mc-&mc-version;.tar.xz";> + <!ENTITY mc-download-ftp " "> + <!ENTITY mc-md5sum "1e29f8d2ce66b686b905857553a092be"> + <!ENTITY mc-size "2.0 MB"> + <!ENTITY mc-buildsize "89 MB"> + <!ENTITY mc-time "0.6 SBU"> ]> <sect1 id="mc" xreflabel="MC-&mc-version;"> @@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ making many frequent file operations more efficient and preserving the full power of the command prompt.</para> + &lfs71_checked; + + <note><para>The download site uses a self-signed security certificate. + You will need to accept it as valid to get the source code.</para></note> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead> <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> <listitem> @@ -60,53 +65,29 @@ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead> <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> <listitem> - <para>Required patch: <ulink - url="&patch-root;/mc-&mc-version;-bash32-1.patch"/></para> + <para>Optional patch: + <ulink url="&patch-root;/mc-&mc-version;-missing-1.patch"/> + </para> </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Recommended Patch: <ulink - url="&patch-root;/mc-&mc-version;-debian_fixes-1.patch"/></para> - </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Do I Need the Debian Patch?</bridgehead> - <para>Midnight Commander without the Debian patch is completely unusable - in multibyte locales because it assumes that characters and - bytes are the same thing. The issue manifests itself as massive screen - content corruption similar to what is depicted in - <ulink url="&files-anduin;/mc-bad.png">this screenshot</ulink> - (taken in the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale). For a general discussion of this type - of issue, see the <xref linkend="locale-wrong-multibyte-characters"/> - section of the <xref linkend="locale-issues"/> page. The Debian patch - mostly fixes this issue, and adds support for recoding remote FTP - filenames. Debian also fixed 64-bit issues, rare segfaults in - <command>mcedit</command>, and improved syntax highlighting.</para> - - <para>If you do not use a multibyte locale and do not need any of the new - features or fixes, the patch is still supposed to be harmless. - However, the patch changes the dependencies and build instructions, and - in the past it caused unacceptable regressions for non-UTF-8 locale users. - Thus, failsafe instructions without the patch are left in the book just - in case. Due to the size and unofficial nature of the patch, please - do not report bugs in the patched <application>MC</application> to the - original <application>MC</application> developers.</para> - <bridgehead renderas="sect3">MC Dependencies</bridgehead> <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead> - <para role="required"><!-- <xref linkend="GLib"/> (untested with Debian patch) or --> - <xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para> + <para role="required"> + <xref linkend="pcre"/> and + <xref linkend="pkgconfig"/> + </para> <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead> - <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gpm"/>, - <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>, - <xref linkend="samba3"/>, - <xref linkend="slang"/> (required when building with Debian patch), - <xref linkend="zip"/>, - <xref linkend="unzip"/>, and - <!-- <xref linkend="gnome-libs"/> --> - <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-libs/1.4/">GNOME - Libraries-1.4</ulink></para> + <para role="optional"> + <xref linkend="gpm"/>, + <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>, + <xref linkend="samba3"/>, + <xref linkend="slang"/>, + <xref linkend="zip"/>, and + <xref linkend="unzip"/> + </para> <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/MC"/></para> @@ -116,99 +97,35 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of MC</title> - <para>Fix incompatibility of <application>MC</application>-&mc-version; - with <application>Bash</application>-3.2:</para> + <para>Add a missing file to run all tests:</para> -<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../mc-&mc-version;-bash32-1.patch</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../mc-&mc-version;-missing-1.patch</userinput></screen> - <para>If desired, apply Debian fixes:</para> - -<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../mc-&mc-version;-debian_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen> - <para>Install <application>MC</application> by running the following commands:</para> -<screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS="-DUTF8" ./configure --prefix=/usr \ - --enable-charset && +<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-charset --disable-static && make</userinput></screen> - <para><application>MC</application> with Debian patches expects its - documentation to be stored in UTF-8 encoding on disk, and automatically - converts it to the locale encoding when displaying on the terminal. This - is different from the expectations of the unpatched - <application>MC</application>, so the documentation files have to be - converted if (and only if) the Debian patch has been applied:</para> + <para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> -<!-- The proposed (untested) fix...somebody who uses MC please verify --> -<screen><userinput>for file in lib/mc.hint{,.es,.it,.nl} doc/{es,it}/mc.hlp.* -do - iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 ${file} > ${file}.utf8 && - mv ${file}.utf8 ${file} -done && -for file in lib/mc.hint{.cs,.hu,.pl} doc/{hu,pl}/mc.hlp.* -do - iconv -f ISO-8859-2 -t UTF-8 ${file} > ${file}.utf8 && - mv ${file}.utf8 ${file} -done && -for file in lib/mc.hint.sr doc/sr/mc.hlp.sr -do - iconv -f ISO-8859-5 -t UTF-8 ${file} > ${file}.utf8 && - mv ${file}.utf8 ${file} -done && -for file in doc/ru/mc.hlp.ru lib/mc.hint.ru -do - iconv -f KOI8-R -t UTF-8 ${file} > ${file}.utf8 && - mv ${file}.utf8 ${file} -done && -iconv -f KOI8-U -t UTF-8 lib/mc.hint.uk > lib/mc.hint.uk.utf8 && -mv lib/mc.hint.uk.utf8 lib/mc.hint.uk && -iconv -f BIG5 -t UTF-8 lib/mc.hint.zh > lib/mc.hint.zh.utf8 && -mv lib/mc.hint.zh.utf8 lib/mc.hint.zh</userinput></screen> - - <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para> - <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para> -<screen role="root"><userinput>make install && -chmod 1755 /usr/lib/mc/cons.saver</userinput></screen> +<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> </sect2> <sect2 role="commands"> <title>Command Explanations</title> - <para><parameter>CPPFLAGS="-DUTF8"</parameter>: This parameter activates - UTF-8 support in the Debian patch and has no effect without this - patch.</para> - <para><parameter>--enable-charset</parameter>: This option adds support to <command>mcedit</command> for editing files in encodings different - from the one implied by the current locale. This feature works in - non-UTF-8 locales only, even with the Debian patch.</para> + from the one implied by the current locale.</para> - <para><parameter>--with-screen=(slang|mcslang|ncurses)</parameter>: This + <para><parameter>--with-screen=(slang|ncurses)</parameter>: This parameter selects the screen library used by <application>MC</application>. - <application>NCurses</application> support is - currently buggy (MC does not handle mouse events in xterm correctly). - UTF-8 support in the Debian patch is functional - only when external <xref linkend="slang"/> is used as a screen library - (this is the default).</para> + <xref linkend="slang"/> is the default if found.</para> - <para><parameter>--with-codepagedir=DIR</parameter>: This parameter was - useful only with <application>SAMBA</application>-2.x. New versions of - <application>SAMBA</application> do not have codepage files.</para> - - <para><command>chmod 1755 /usr/lib/mc/cons.saver</command>: The - <command>cons.saver</command> program has to be installed setuid - root, because on LFS regular users have no access to - <filename>/dev/vcsa*</filename> devices. This step is optional if - <application>MC</application> is going to be started from X terminal - emulators or <command>ssh</command> sessions only (thus rendering the - <command>cons.saver</command> binary completely unneeded).</para> - - <!-- Other distributions make the devices owned by the vcsa group - and make the cons.saver program setgid vcsa instead --> - </sect2> <sect2 role="configuration"> @@ -247,9 +164,9 @@ <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle> <seglistitem> - <seg>cons.saver, mc, mcedit, mcmfmt, and mcview</seg> + <seg>mc, mcdiff, mcedit, and mcview</seg> <seg>None</seg> - <seg>/usr/share/mc and /usr/lib/mc</seg> + <seg>i/etc/mc, /usr/libexec/mc, and /usr/share/mc</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> @@ -289,13 +206,12 @@ </listitem> </varlistentry> - <varlistentry id="mcmfmt"> - <term><command>mcmfmt</command></term> + <varlistentry id="mcdiff"> + <term><command>mcdiff</command></term> <listitem> - <para>is used internally by <command>mcview</command> when viewing - mailbox files.</para> - <indexterm zone="mc mcmfmt"> - <primary sortas="b-mcmfmt">mcmfmt</primary> + <para>is an internal visual diff tool.</para> + <indexterm zone="mc mcdiff"> + <primary sortas="b-mcdiff">mcdiff</primary> </indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent =================================================================== --- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-04-22 19:09:59 UTC (rev 9979) +++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-04-22 20:14:16 UTC (rev 9980) @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ <!ENTITY pciutils-version "3.1.9"> <!ENTITY usbutils-version "005"> <!ENTITY cpio-version "2.11"> -<!ENTITY mc-version "4.6.1"> +<!ENTITY mc-version "4.8.3"> <!ENTITY sysstat-version "10.0.2"> <!ENTITY apache-ant-version "1.8.1"> <!ENTITY dbus-version "1.4.20"> Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml =================================================================== --- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-04-22 19:09:59 UTC (rev 9979) +++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-04-22 20:14:16 UTC (rev 9980) @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ <para>April 22nd, 2012</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to mc-4.8.3. Fixes + <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;2931">#2931</ulink>.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> <para>[rthomsen] - Added Mercurial 2.1.2. Fixes <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;2451">#2451</ulink>.</para> </listitem> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
