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INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPILE AND INSTALL NANO GIT VERSIONS
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The latest version of GNU nano is available via git, but building this needs
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a bit more care than the official stable and unstable tarballs.
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Prerequisites
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To successfully compile GNU nano from the git repo, you'll need the following
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packages:
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- autoconf (version >= 2.61)
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- automake (version >= 1.7)
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- gettext (version >= 0.11.5)
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- git (version >= 2.7.4)
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- groff (version >= 1.12)
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- pkg-config (version >= 0.22)
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- texinfo (version >= 4.0)
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- glib 2.x (in case your system doesn't have vsnprintf(), which the
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configure script will check for)
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- make, gcc, and
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- the normal development libraries (curses or slang, etc.)
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These should all be available in your distro's package manager or software
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center, or otherwise on any GNU mirror. Note that you'll need a version of
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curses or slang with wide character support if you want nano to use UTF-8.
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Download the source
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To obtain the current nano development code (called 'master', or sometimes
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'trunk'), use the following command. It will create a copy of the files in
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a subdirectory of your current working directory called 'nano':
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$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/nano.git nano
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Generate the configure script
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Once you have the sources in the "nano" directory,
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$ cd nano
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$ ./autogen.sh
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This will set up a configure script and a Makefile.in file.
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Configure your build
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To configure your build, run the configure script from the nano source
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directory:
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$ ./configure [--add-options-here]
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Build and install
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-----------------
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From the nano source directory, build the code with:
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$ make
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Then, once it's done compiling, run:
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$ make install
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which should copy various files (i.e. the nano executable, the info and
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man pages, and syntax highlighting pattern files) to their appropriate
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directories.
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If you're installing into the default install directory (/usr/local),
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you'll need to run that "make install" command with root privileges.
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Problems?
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---------
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Please submit any bugs you find in the code in git via the bug tracker
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on Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano).
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Contributing something
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----------------------
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If you have a fix for a bug, or the code for a new or improved feature,
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first create a branch off of master:
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$ git checkout -b somename
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Then change the code so it does what you want, and commit it, with in the
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commit message (after the one-line summary) a rationale for the change:
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$ git commit -as
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Then create a patch (or patches):
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$ git format-patch master
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Send that patch (or patches) to <nano-devel@gnu.org>, as an attachment
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or with git send-email.
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