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Hi,

I would also be quite keen on getting mc
somehow linux with mc is not the same (-;

Hi guys, after 2 days of failed attempts with the mainline mc4.6.1 i've finally managed to obtain a working arm binary for Midnight Commander MP (http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi ).See final disclaimer btw.
Let's start with some details about my failed attempts.
It seems that the only external library needed to build the release 4.6.1 is glibc ( 1.2.x+ or 2.x.x+ supported). But after the 2 days mentioned above, i simply cannot get this library to compile... it's an impossible task to me... i've never passed the configured phase, recent releases don't like our gcc3.3 (too old and maybe there are other issues) and older releases like 1.2.6 compile only with gcc2.95 and i was too lazy to try to rebuild the toolchain configured for 2.95 (i'm not sure that this is possible, though... looks like that some directories are missing for 2.95).
The MP fork instead has no dependencies but is based on the old 4.1.40 release of the mainline mc. For me it's not an issue, i don't see any missing basic functionalities in this fork, but some "recent" bugfixes may not be available.
To compile this one i had to modify three files (see attached diff if interested). While the changes to ru.po are related to the deletion of some EOT characters (.......), the modifications to subshell.c fix a missing include "stropts.h" and some platform-related conditional defines. And... guess what? stropts.h is part of glibc. But luckily only two constants from this header are used, so i've just copy/pasted the needed defines. The fix to view.c is related to an undeclared var, looking at a commented line before the error (same var removed from the if condition) commenting the faulty code seems a good fix to me.

* DISCLAIMER
I'm using this mc package and all works.
You'll only need to set these environment vars after login an launch mc:

export TERMINFO=/mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/share/terminfo
export TERM=xterm

Browsing,file copy/rename/remove/mv/edit, dir creation/rename/copy/rec_remove, compress/uncompress/list_content of tgz tested and working.
No issues found (rar/zip/scp functionalities are missing, no rar,etc.. binaries present on my box).

* BUT:
- The view.c fix seems to work but i must investigate this one in-depth, any help or opinion will be greatly appreciated.
- I'm not the maintainer of this project, so, i don't know how many bugfixes are missing and if some of them fix major issues.

* SO:
Use it at your own risk, and have fun :)
The package can be installed using funpkg.sh too.
Feel free to post here the result of your testing.



Update: Download the archive from here: http://www.onlyhype.com/dns-323/ffp-0.4 … rm926T.tgz

Update 2: MC needs the terminal definition for xterm that can be found in the linefeed's ncurses package
Download his ncurses lib tar here http://0x0a.net/dns323 and install it with funpkg.sh ncurses-5.6.tgz.

Note for non-root users: MC saves his state under ~/.mc/ ,so the home dir of your user must be writeable. Usually, the users created from the webpanel have /ftp_server as home and this directory is writable only by root. I suggest to change the default user home dir and to fix rights as usual with chown+chmod. If you want to use the gzip/tar feature, the user that invokes mc must have write privileges for /tmp/.

Update 3: As jotka suggests, just add to /mnt/HD_a2/funplug.d/etc/profile the two term config lines to make the configuration persistent for every ssh session.
export TERMINFO=${FUNPLUGDIR}/share/terminfo
export TERM=xterm

Update 4: Grab the ncurses-5.6 package compatible with ffp0.4 from here.

Last edited by jules (2008-08-24 18:49:11)

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You are right, i've installed the linefeed's lftp package weeks ago, so i also have the ncurses terminals info. These terminal definitions are essential to make mc work.

You can take his ncurses lib tar here http://0x0a.net/dns323 an install it with funpkg.sh ncurses-5.6.tgz.

Last edited by jules (2008-02-23 17:41:55)

ahors: See "Update 2" of Jules post.

Jules,

Thank you for a quick reply and sorry for missing it the first time around.
Yes it worked (-:

I did not have a chance to test it yet but it seems to work great!
The only significat issue is that the function keys F1 - F12 dont seem to work.
Instead of invoking intended mc functionality the seem to do nothing and under mcedit they send the following sequence:
11~   for F1
12~   for F2
etc

I guess there are some other/more terminal definitions missing?

Thanks again,

UPDATE:
funny enough it seems to work much better when only TERMINFO variable is set.
That is: not only function keys Fxx are working fine, but also, it is no longer black&white but nice and colorful!

I am not sure why but in my environment (fonz fun_plug 0.4) it seems to work better when TERM is not set to vt100 - but when it stays set at default 'xterm'.

I do have one other question - what is the appropriate place to put the export command in?  (to avoid having to type it after every login)
I tried to put the required export in the main fun_plug script file, but it does not work (even after reboot)  - ...and I could not find the .bash_profile file.

Last edited by ahors (2008-02-29 01:31:56)

ahors wrote:

I do have one other question - what is the appropriate place to put the export command in?  (to avoid having to type it after every login)

/mnt/HD_a2/funplug.d/etc/profile maybe ? it works for me.

Last edited by jotka (2008-02-29 16:53:26)

Thanks for mc
kinda lost without it
started using nc in '87

just powered down two tower systems
a PII 400 linux box that's been running raid1 for about a decade
and a more recent 3GHz windows box

replaced with a DNS-323 and a mac mini
reckon that saves more than 200 watts

Oh so quiet!

gonna hook them to solar -- if the sun ever starts to shine :-)

Unfortunately I can't access http://0x0a.net/dns323 to download mc and lftp.

Can anyone provide these packages here in the forum or point me to a webpage? Thanks a lot!

marinalink

Last edited by marinalink (2008-06-17 00:05:50)

jules wrote:

Grab it from here.
I saw that you compiled nano for ffp0.5, remember that this mc package was built for ffp0.4 so it will not work with 0.5.

Good point! I tried to compile mc on my own, but I have the problem with a missing tool ("msgfmt"):

file=./`echo ru | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
          && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH msgfmt -o $file ru.po
msgfmt: No such file or directory

does anybody know, where to get msgfmt. I tried to compile gettext which includes msgfmt, but I (again) get some compile errors (iconv.h is missing).

marinalink

Hmm, you are right marinalink,  maybe now a binary for ffp0.5 will be surely more usefull than this old one... let me know if you encounter any of my issues with the stanrdard mc ...

marinalink wrote:

msgfmt:ru.po:878: context separator <EOT> within string

Don't know much about msgfmt, but this might be a problem with missing locale or incomplete utf8 support. You can try to configure with --disable-nls, or manually remove the russion catalogs. gentoo might have uclibc specific patches, too.

PS: http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Mc
The debian patch contains fixes to /po/ru.po. Applying the patch as recommended by the cblfs guys might already suffice.

Hi marinalink, can I have a copy of the ffp0.5 mc that I can have please?