Builds optimized version of Midnight Commander including patches into custom location on Debian flavoured systems.

Supports:

• multiple release versions
• git version (by specifying branch or commit)
• building per user or system wide

First, you need to install a few required packages — and no, this is not optional in any way. They require about 280 MB disk space. These steps must be performed by the root user (i.e. in a root shell, or by writing sudo before the actual command):

apt-get update
apt-get install sudo coreutils binutils build-essential git time \
    autopoint autoconf automake libtool pkg-config unzip curl locales \
    e2fslibs-dev gettext libaspell-dev libglib2.0-dev libgpm-dev \
    libslang2-dev libssh2-1-dev libx11-dev

mkdir -p ~/src/; cd ~/src/
git clone https://github.com/chros73/build-mc.git
cd build-mc

You can compile it for a regular user:

time nice -n 19 ./build.sh mc

or system wide (needs root shell, or by writing sudo before the actual command):

time nice -n 19 ./build.sh install

You can compile the specified git version by adding a git second argument to the above commands.

If you want to turn off optimization for some reason (e.g. moving the build to a different box) it can be done by adding optimize_build=no in front of the above commands, e.g.:

optimize_build=no time nice -n 19 ./build.sh mc git

See CHANGELOG.md for more details.