INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPILE AND INSTALL NANO CVS VERSIONS ----------------------------------------------------- GNU nano is available from CVS, but building this needs a bit more care than the official stable and unstable tarballs. To successfully compile GNU nano from CVS, you'll need the following packages: - autoconf (version >= 2.54) - automake (version >= 1.7) - gettext (version >= 0.11.5) - texinfo - cvs - glib 2.x (if your system doesn't have snprintf() and/or vsnprintf()) - make, gcc and the normal development libraries (ncurses, etc.) These should be available on your GNU mirror. To download the CVS tree, execute the following command: $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nano login and press enter at the password prompt. Then, do $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nano checkout nano and the nano tree will download. If you want to checkout the stable CVS branch, append -r nano_1_0_branch: $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nano checkout -r nano_1_0_branch nano Once you have the sources in the "nano" directory, cd into it, and execute the "autogen.sh" script in the top directory. This will set up a configure script and Makefile.in, and you will be ready to compile with $ ./configure [--add-options-here] && make Once it's done compiling, $ make install (as root) should put the required files in their respective directories. Please submit any bugs in the CVS branch to nano-devel@gnu.org.