NAS Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 There is something funky with midnight commander in V5.0.0 If you ask it the version you get: mc -V GNU Midnight Commander unknown Virtual File Systems: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs With builtin Editor Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 32; void *: 32; size_t: 32; off_t: 64; a similar test on Debian 7.2 mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.3 Built with GLib 2.32.4 Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database With builtin Editor With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, fish Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64; Link to comment
limetech Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Does the same thing in 4.7. This "bug" has been there for a very long time. In looking at the source, the makefile wants to use git to grab the version from a commit tag. I'm guessing that perhaps Patrick V. (slackware guy) didn't have git installed when these packages were built and no one has ever noticed... except for sharp-eyed NAS Interesting in unraid 6, based on slack 14.1, it does seem to report the version: root@develop64:~# mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.9 Built with GLib 2.36.3 Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database With builtin Editor With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64; Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Interesting in unraid 6, based on slack 14.1 How long until we can play with 6.0-x64-alpha1? Link to comment
NAS Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 Interesting indeed. I suppose it is not really a bug other than it makes it hard to check release logs and see if the mc feature or fix you need is included in unRAID. Maybe we just close this by listing the version included in the current release Edit: I just realised i never posted why i got into this. mc seems to be incorrectly auto guessing if the "preserve attributes" flag should be unticked sometimes. Obviously this is a complete pain if you don't notice and don't re tick it. I know some work was done on this by the mc team but I cant tell if we are up to date to really start debugging it. Link to comment
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