[WBEL-users] mc RPM for WBEL anyone?

[Mike B.]

I've been using RH-7.2 for years, but am looking into switching to WBEL to 
get something a bit more modern (I've got WBEL 3 CDs at the moment...I know 
4 is out, but 3 is what I have at the moment).  I've installed it on a 
spare machine, and in playing with it I find that one of the more useful 
command line apps, Midnight Commander (mc), is missing!  What gives?  Has 
everyone gone GUI or something?

I found the SRPMs for mc for RHEL, and downloaded the latest one, but it 
won't install properly.  I worked past the problems rpmbuild has with the 
"%include"  "macros" in various comments by changing the "%include" to 
"%_include" in the comments of the spec file.  And a similar problem with 
another macro ("%proc" I think it was) in the same way.  That got things 
moving, and I updated the SRPM ok...but trying to make an RPM is failing 
with a list of files that are there, but not included in the RPM.  They 
seem to be mostly doc and HTMLs, but there are some others (I don't have 
mail set up on that machine yet, or a way to get into it from this machine 
yet, so I can't cut-paste the exact error messages).

Rather than spending a lot of time figuring out how to fix that one too, is 
it possible that someone has already done this and has a WBEL RPM for 
mc?  If not, I guess I'll have to learn some more about building RPMs... ;-)

-- Mike B.
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