README.CVS

INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPILE AND INSTALL NANO CVS VERSIONS
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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)
- groff
- texinfo
- cvs
- ssh (with support for the SSH version 2 protocol)
- 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.

First, you need to set up cvs to download the CVS tree using ssh.  If
you're using a Bourne shell (e.g. bash), do
$ export CVS_RSH=ssh
If you're using a C shell (e.g. tcsh or csh), do
$ setenv CVS_RSH ssh

After it's set up, use the following command to download the CVS tree:
$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nano checkout nano

If you want to download the stable CVS branch, add "-r nano_1_0_branch":
$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.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.