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INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPILE AND INSTALL NANO CVS VERSIONS
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GNU nano is available from SVN, but building this needs a bit more care
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than the official stable and unstable tarballs.
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Prerequisites
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To successfully compile GNU nano from CVS, you'll need the following
packages:
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- autoconf (version >= 2.54)
- automake (version >= 1.7)
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- gettext  (version >= 0.11.5)
- groff    (version >= 1.12)
- texinfo  (version >= 4.0)
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- subversion (aka svn)
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- ssh (with support for the SSH version 2 protocol)
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- glib 2.x (if your system doesn't have vsnprintf(), which the configure
  script will check for)
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- make, gcc and the normal development libraries (curses or slang, etc.)
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These should be available on your GNU mirror.  Note that you'll need a
version of 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 'trunk'), use the 
following command.  It will create a copy of the files in a subdirectory 
of your current working directory called 'nano':
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    $ svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano
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If you want to download the stable SVN branch instead, use:
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    $ svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/branches/nano_2_0_branch/nano
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Generate the configure script
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Once you have the sources in the "nano" directory,

    $ cd nano
    $ ./autogen.sh

This will set up a configure script and a Makefile.in file.


Configure your build
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To configure your build, run the configure script from the nano source
directory:

    $ ./configure [--add-options-here]


Build and install
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From the nano source directory, build the code with:

    $ make

Then, once it's done compiling, run

    $ 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
directories.

If you're installing into the default install directory (/usr/local),
you'll need to run that "make install" command with root privileges.

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Problems?
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Please submit any bugs in the SVN branch using the Savannah project's 
bug tracker (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano)