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@@ -5,20 +5,21 @@ This document is a guide how to develop GNU Midnight Commander. It's
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quite incomplete, but may be worth reading anyway.
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The document was written by Miguel de Icaza and reworked by Pavel
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-Roskin. Some parts were taken from the messages posted in the mailing
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+Roskin and later from Patrick Winnertz.
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+ Some parts were taken from the messages posted in the mailing
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lists.
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-Compiling from CVS
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+Compiling from GIT
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==================
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-To compile GNU Midnight commander from CVS, the following software is
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+To compile GNU Midnight commander from GIT, the following software is
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required:
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Autoconf 2.52 and above (latest is recommended)
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Automake 1.5 and above (latest is recommended)
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Gettext 0.11.5 and above
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-Glib 1.2.6 and above (2.x is recommended)
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+Glib 2.x and above
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It is recommended that all those tools are installed with the same
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prefix. Make sure that the tools with the right version are first in
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@@ -44,17 +45,17 @@ used in the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION macro, which is 0.11.5.
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Working with GNU Midnight Commander
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===================================
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-Please use the CVS version. It may be quite different from the released
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-versions. A lot of cleanup is going on. The CVS version may be easier
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+Please use the GIT version. It may be quite different from the released
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+versions. A lot of cleanup is going on. The GIT version may be easier
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to understand, in addition to the obvious fact that the merging is
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-easier with the CVS version.
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+easier with the GIT version.
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-There are some tools in the maint directory on CVS. They are not
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+There are some tools in the maint directory on GIT. They are not
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included with releases or snapshots. You may be interested to look at
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them if you are going to work on the project for an extended period of
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time. In particular, the release procedure is described there.
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-In order to compile GNU Midnight Commander from a clean CVS checkout you
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+In order to compile GNU Midnight Commander from a clean GIT checkout you
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should use autogen.sh instead of configure. Arguments passed to
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autogen.sh are passed to configure after it's generated.
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@@ -127,14 +128,6 @@ src - the main part of the code.
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This code includes the dialog manager written by Radek Doulik and source
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code of the main application.
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-slang - stripped down S-Lang library.
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-
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-It's provided to allow compilation that don't have the S-Lang library
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-with complete headers or the library is broken. Please avoid changing
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-this code. If you do change it, please consider contributing your
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-changes to the maintainers of S-Lang.
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Code structure - details
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Patrick Winnertz