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In short: there's no configure executable file in mc repo.

Coming from this thread How do I *completely* disable the Ctrl-O shortcut in Midnight Commander?

where it became obvious the only way to solve my 'ctrl-o' binding problem is to recompile mc from source because it's hardcoded in source.

So I cloned it

git clone https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc.git

The install guide says: start with running ./configure but I'm stuck because there's no file named configure cloned in the repo. (I searched recursively)

Even here they start with ./configure: https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/mc-con-soporte-samba/

./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --enable-vfs-smb --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man

How? I don't know. That file is missing. This is what I got in the top level dir of mc repo:

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├── acinclude.m4
├── AUTHORS
├── autogen.sh
├── build-glib2.sh
├── ChangeLog
├── configure.ac
├── contrib
├── COPYING -> doc/COPYING
├── doc
├── INSTALL -> doc/INSTALL
├── lib
├── m4.include
├── maint
├── Makefile.am
├── misc
├── NEWS -> doc/NEWS
├── po
├── README -> doc/README
├── src
├── tests
└── version.sh

There's configure.ac but it's not executable. Any ideas?

xropi
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You need to run ./autogen.sh to generate configure and a number of other files. This will require a few tools to be installed: autoconf, automake, autopoint and libtool.

Once you’ve got ./autogen.sh to run successfully, you’ll find a configure script and you’ll be able to follow the instructions in INSTALL.

(The reason those instructions are seemingly incomplete is that they are intended for release tarballs, which include all the files generated by autogen.sh. The development repository doesn’t include these files since they are generated.)

Stephen Kitt
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