I'm working over a Mandriva 2011 distro to get it working just the
way I like it. It came with mc-4.7.53, and it works. I decided to
compile 4.8.14 on the PC, pretty standard stuff:
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.14
Built with GLib 2.16.6
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 32; void *: 32; size_t: 32; off_t: 64;
On startup it hangs for 10 seconds, apparently on a select() call.
I've edited this strace dump for brevity:
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04:20:19 open(/dev/ptmx, O_RDWR) = 6
04:20:19 statfs(/dev/pts, {f_type=DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC, f_bsize=4096,
f_blocks=0, f_bfree=0, f_bavail=0, f_files=0, f_ffree=0, f_fsid={0, 0},
f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or
TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, TIOCGPTN, [3])= 0
04:20:19 stat64(/dev/pts/3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136,
3), ...}) = 0
04:20:19 getuid32() = 501
04:20:19 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 7
04:20:19 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=/var/run/nscd/socket}, 110)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
04:20:19 close(7) = 0
04:20:19 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 7
04:20:19 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=/var/run/nscd/socket}, 110)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
04:20:19 close(7) = 0
04:20:19 open(/etc/group, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 7
04:20:19 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=669, ...}) = 0
04:20:19 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7189000
04:20:19 read(7, root:x:0:\nbin:x:1:\ndaemon:x:2:\ns..., 4096) = 669
04:20:19 close(7) = 0
04:20:19 munmap(0xb7189000, 4096) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, TIOCSPTLCK, [0]) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or
TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, TIOCGPTN, [3])= 0
04:20:19 stat64(/dev/pts/3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136,
3), ...}) = 0
04:20:19 open(/dev/pts/3, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 7
04:20:19 fcntl64(7, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
04:20:19 pipe([8, 9]) = 0
04:20:19 clone(child_stack=0,
flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0xb74f7728) = 12097
04:20:19 write(6, PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND..., 75) = 75
04:20:19 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8096d10, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {10, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
998268})
04:20:19 read(6, PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND..., 128) = 76
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 998268}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971360})
04:20:19 read(6, [miven@cobra ~]$ PROMPT_COMMAND..., 128) = 55
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971360}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971353})
04:20:19 read(6, MPT_, 128) = 4
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971353}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971347})
04:20:19 read(6, COM, 128)= 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971347}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971341})
04:20:19 read(6, MAN, 128)= 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971341}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971335})
04:20:19 read(6, D;, 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971335}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971329})
04:20:19 read(6, }', 128)= 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971329}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971323})
04:20:19 read(6, pw, 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971323}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971317})
04:20:19 read(6, d, 128)= 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971317}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971311})
04:20:19 read(6, 9;, 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971311}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971305})
04:20:19 read(6, kil, 128)= 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971305}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971299})
04:20:19 read(6, l , 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971299}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971293})
04:20:19 read(6, -S, 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971293}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971287})
04:20:19 read(6, TO, 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971287}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971281})
04:20:19 read(6, P , 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971281}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
971275})
04:20:19 read(6, $$, 128) = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971275}) = 1