1 INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPILE AND INSTALL NANO CVS VERSIONS
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4 GNU nano is available from SVN, but building this needs a bit more care
5 than the official stable and unstable tarballs.
11 To successfully compile GNU nano from CVS, you'll need the following
14 - autoconf (version >= 2.54)
15 - automake (version >= 1.7)
16 - gettext (version >= 0.11.5)
17 - groff (version >= 1.12)
18 - texinfo (version >= 4.0)
19 - subversion (aka svn)
20 - ssh (with support for the SSH version 2 protocol)
21 - glib 2.x (if your system doesn't have vsnprintf(), which the configure
22 script will check for)
23 - make, gcc and the normal development libraries (curses or slang, etc.)
25 These should be available on your GNU mirror. Note that you'll need a
26 version of curses or slang with wide character support if you want nano
33 To obtain the current nano development code (called 'trunk'), use the
34 following command. It will create a copy of the files in a subdirectory
35 of your current working directory called 'nano':
37 $ svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano
39 If you want to download the stable SVN branch instead, use:
41 $ svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/branches/nano_2_0_branch/nano
44 Generate the configure script
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47 Once you have the sources in the "nano" directory,
52 This will set up a configure script and a Makefile.in file.
58 To configure your build, run the configure script from the nano source
61 $ ./configure [--add-options-here]
67 From the nano source directory, build the code with:
71 Then, once it's done compiling, run
75 which should copy various files (i.e. the nano executable, the info and
76 man pages, and syntax highlighting pattern files) to their appropriate
79 If you're installing into the default install directory (/usr/local),
80 you'll need to run that "make install" command with root privileges.
86 Please submit any bugs in the SVN branch using the Savannah project's
87 bug tracker (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano)