[GrBear]

Has anyone had success in compiling, what I consider, _the_ most useful command line utility?

I've tried several times, and it does require a few dependancy libraries.. most notibily glib-1.2.8, which happens to require libiconv-1.6.1. *laughs*

Anyways, I've been able to compile and install libiconv, however I haven't had luck with glib yet. The configure script seems to run through fine, but when I make it, I get the error:

..
giounix.c:1301: bad macro argument list
cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode
make[2]: *** [giounix.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
..

Incase anyone reading this thread doesn't know what Midnight Commander (mc) is, if you've ever used Norton Commander in DOS, this is the same thing but for unix. It's the ultimate in dealing with file management and simplies dealing with files whether they be in a tarball, on a remote FTP/SAMBA/NFS server and other excellent features to numerous to list.


Any help or suggestions?


Thanks.

[Angus_D]

setenv CPPFLAGS -traditional-cpp
./configure
make

That tells it to use the standard C preprocessor, not the Apple one, which has bugs in it. See the OS X newbies thread thing on here for links to more porting tips.

[GrBear]

That appears to have corrected the compilation of glib.. thank you very much, and I'll look for that message you mentioned.

[Angus_D]

Just noticed that there's actually a patch in fink for it. It compiled fine here, running it on XonX

[GrBear]

Ooooo.. light at the end of the tunnel.. so to speak.

I don't suppose I could convince you to make a package of it, huh?

I'll have to check out fink I suppose, I want Midnight Commander to be compiled with SMB support so I can access windows shares as conviniently as though they were just another directory on my hard drive.

Thanks for the info.