RE: Static build of mc

["David Leigh" <david leighweb com>]

Thank you.  This is helpful information and gives me some good steps to try
out.  I appreciate it!

I've not used (knowingly) screen before, but I did a "screen -list" and got
the following result: 

No Sockets found in /var/run/screen/S-dleigh.

So that tells me it's installed but I don't know if the results are
indicative of a good or a bad situation vis-à-vis the liklihood of mc
running.
Thanks!
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Yury V. Zaytsev [mailto:yury shurup com] 
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 10:18 PM
To: david leighweb com
Cc: mc gnome org
Subject: Re: Static build of mc

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, david leighweb com wrote:

> They told me that the server is a CentOS 6 box.  I see traces of 
> CloudLinux and CageFS in my user space as well.

This doesn't sound good, just make sure you aren't constrained to jailshell
or whatever CloudLinux calls it, because previously I remember that in that
case you somehow couldn't even properly allocate a tty... 
it'd be stupid if you'll manage to compile mc and then figure it doesn't
run. You can check it with screen if it's already installed on the target
host, if that works, then mc is also likely to work.

I would have actually just extracted pre-compiled mc from an rpm and put all
of its library dependencies (also extracted from rpms) on LD_LIBRARY_PATH as
the other poster suggests, but yeah, you can do it the hard way too.

> export GLIB_LIBDIR=/root/myglibc/build/lib

The following seemed to work for me:

     $ GLIB_LIBDIR=/usr/lib ../configure

> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/myglibc/build/lib

You don't need this.

--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev