Overview

Nano is a text editor, and requires ncurses to compile.

Preparation

Make sure you have a cross-compiling virtual machine properly setup. Don't forget to source the proper cross-compilation variables.

Compilation

sudo apt-get install texinfo

cd ~/code
. ~/bin/crosscompile.drobo5n.sh
export DEST=/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/nano
export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Os -fPIC -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections"
export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,--gc-sections"

wget -O ncurses-5.9.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
tar zxf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
cd ncurses-5.9/
./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --prefix=$DEST --without-shared --enable-widec
make clean && make && make install.data
pushd include; ln -fs curses.h ncurses.h; popd
NCURSES=`pwd`
cd ..

wget -O nano-2.2.6.tar.gz http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/nano-2.2.6.tar.gz
tar zxf nano-2.2.6.tar.gz
cd nano-2.2.6/
for f in doc/syntax/*.nanorc; do sed -i -e "s/\\\\>/\\\\b/g" -e "s/\\\\</\\\\b/g" $f; done
./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --prefix=$DEST CPPFLAGS="-I$NCURSES/include" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$NCURSES/lib"
make clean && make && make install
$STRIP -s -R .comment -R .note -R .note.ABI-tag $DEST/bin/*

mkdir -p $DEST/etc
cp doc/nanorc.sample $DEST/etc/

Packaging

cd $DEST
~/bin/package.sh

Final remarks

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