1 This file should not distributed with any releases of GNU Midnight
4 To compile MC from CVS, the following software is required:
6 Autoconf 2.52 and above
8 Gettext 0.10.38 - 0.10.40 or (preferrably) 0.11.5 and above.
9 Glib 1.2.6 and above on the 1.2.x branch or 2.0.x (experimental, has to
10 be explicitly enabled by `--with-glib2').
12 It is recommended that all those tools are installed with the same
13 prefix. Make sure that the tools with the right version are first in
16 Once you have the right tools, run `autogen.sh' - it will generate
17 everything necessary for the build and run `configure'. Arguments given
18 to `autogen.sh' are passed to `configure'. Then run `make' as usually.
20 The distribution tarball is created by the command `make distcheck'.
21 This command can take a while.
23 The next version, mc-4.6.0, is expected to be released using the latest
24 versions of the GNU tools, which are currently: