autogen.sh fails, archive.tar.gz not found

2013-01-10 Thread Marco
Hi, I'm trying to build mc. Running ./autogen.sh fails with maint/autopoint: 421: maint/autopoint: cannot open /usr/share/gettext/archive.tar.gz: No such file True, there is no archive.tar.gz in that directory. I was unable to find this file in any package provided by Debian. The gettext

Re: autogen.sh fails, archive.tar.gz not found

2013-01-10 Thread Marco
On 2013–01–10 Slava Zanko wrote: See https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/doc/buildAndInstall/req for checking if your OS is ready to build mc. Thanks. I didn't see that page before. The package autopoint was missing. It works now. Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ctrl mappings don't work

2013-01-10 Thread Marco
On 2013–01–10 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Terminal itself handles these keys. mc hust doesn't get them. huh? slang/ncurses runs the tty in raw mode, so it gets all the keys just fine. what is most likely happening is that mc's command prompt is eating those keys before they reach the

Re: ctrl mappings don't work

2013-01-10 Thread frank
huh? slang/ncurses runs the tty in raw mode... Marco's issue concerns rxvt-unicode not the text console. There is no keyboard raw mode in a graphic terminal for the simple reason that any application below X11 is interacting with X11 and not with the kernel. This includes applications