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Re: Compiling/Compatability with Linux
- To: <russ dot foster at swc dot com>
- Subject: Re: Compiling/Compatability with Linux
- From: "Fergus" <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:02:10 +0100
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,<fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Reply-To: "Fergus" <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
Yes, I had success with the text editor nano (the pico lookalike - but
better) available from www.nano-editor.org. It comes as a .tar.gz file that
you can explode in the usual way. After
./compile
there's a Makefile file that leads inexorably to an installation failure
unless it is first edited. As follows: find the line
LIBS = -lncurses
in Makefile and change it to
LIBS = -lncurses -lintl
Then (well: this was my experience anyway) the two lines
make
make install
work perfectly: and hey presto, I've got nano.
Note 1. Sorry, I've no idea whether this will work for you and what you
want.
Note 2. It would be nice if nano could be one of the applications provided
direct from Cygwin, but I don't know how to ask, or who to ask; and I will
probably be told: "You want it, you do it" which is perfectly fair, except
that I don't know how to do it. (Provide it, that is.)
Fergus
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