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 (curses or slang, etc.)

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.

First, you need to set up cvs to download the CVS tree using ssh.  If
you're using a Bourne shell (e.g. bash or sh), 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.