Re: Midnight Commander home page

[Nate Dannenberg <natedac daconcepts dyndns org>]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hi, Nate!
>
> > > Sorry for inconvenience.
> >
> > I managed to grab the CVS but was unable to build it - it complained,
> > something like:
> >
> > autoheader:  shell error sourcing /tmp/aXXXX/traces.sh

That's actually almost exactly what I get.  Here's the full output, along
with autoheader:

natedac daconcepts ~/mc$ ./autogen.sh
autoheader: error: shell error while sourcing /tmp/ah9323/traces.sh
natedac daconcepts ~/mc$ autoheader --version
autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.50
Written by Roland McGrath.

Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
natedac daconcepts ~/mc$

Autoconf is 2.50.

I no longer need to compile it, since I found out what the problem was.

> This patch exists (if I understand your problem correctly), but I haven't
> applied it yet.  You can try "mc -x" in the meantime.

In version 4.5.55 (the one supplied with Slackware), the -x switch doesn't
seem to do anything.

> Again, more info could be useful.

To be more exact, if I click on an item, such as a menu entry at the top,
or a filename in either panel, nothing happens.  Double-clicking selects a
word, click and drag selects a region.  It's as if I'm hjolding down the
Shift key to do a normal text selection.

In other words, I can't really use the mouse for anything but cut and
paste, at least not in ATerm.  Programs like PINE and Links seem to have
no mouse troubles in A-Term, though.

If I use X-Term, MC behaves as advertised.

> It was broken.  It's fixed now, but it will be removed soon.  Command line
> options are not the right way to permanently fix MC behavior on certain
> terminals.

I agree. :)

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