Hello! > Read my words again. "Separate distribution" means that it will be a > separate bigger tarball especially for those who don't have glib and don't > want to install it. And I'll make it only if I have time and there is > enough interest from the users.
I saw some posts in the net from users who were having problems because of the glib. Most of these users are not users anymore just because they were unable to build mc :-( I found the following example in the cygwin list: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I am trying to compile mc 4.5.55 with no luck. First, it complained I did not have glib so I tried to install that. However, glib complained I did not have pkgconfig. I downloaded the latest version of pkgconfig and I can't get that to install either. I read the instructions and typed "./configure" then "make" then "make install". I get a variety of errors and eventually, it does not work. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Apparently this guy is not mc user anymore... And he was having problem on machine with "root" access, forget about production machine with tyrant sysadmin. I also had a problem with glib - its installer put glib.m4 to a wrong place, it took me some time to figure out this problem. The size of glib is about 500K, which will be about 200K compressed, so the size it is not a problem since the mc distribution is about 3 Megs. We already have slang and gettext included and this is very good - people don't have hassles with them. Let's be consistent! Alex _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
