MC not starting

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Thu Nov 4 16:05:28 PDT 2010


On Thu, November 4, 2010 6:54 pm, PrzemysÅ?aw PaweÅ?czyk wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 23:38:31 +0100
> Paul Onyschuk <blink at bojary.koba.pl> wrote:
>
>> It's Slang problem. MC builded with this options, works just fine
>> under localized cons25l2 terminal and csh:
>>
>> PKG_OPTIONS.mc=	ncurses -slang
>>
>> Other apps that uses devel/libslang2 like news/slrn and misc/most,
>> also suffers from the same problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> But is there any chance to get MC working after downloading its
> binaries just after fresh installation of DF? Just like it is with
> other systems?

I think I can do the binary builds with PKG_OPTIONS.mc set to that, along
with PKG_OPTIONS.slrn and PKG_OPTIONS.most.  If they aren't going to work
on DragonFly without that, I can see no downside to that.  (Someone please
correct me if there's a hidden gotcha.)






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