Odd behaviour by patched 4.6.1 on Slackware 8.1

I recently installed Slackware 8.1 on an agong MMX/233 box.
Since it has 
mc 4.5.55, I decided to upgrade it to 4.6.1. FYI, this
distro has kernel 
2.4.18, gcc 2.95.3 and glibc 2.2.5.

mc 4.6.1 patched with either the 2007-01-04-16 or the
2007-03-09-18 
patch can't move the subshell to the directory the active
pane shows 
("Can't change to <dir>.". A stock 4.6.1
does not have this problem.

Oh, and here's an oddity that has had me wondering for a
long time: Why 
is it that hopping between panes with each pane on a
different directory 
and shelling out each time without doing anything causes the
prompt to 
bunch up when on the console, but not if you run mc via ssh?
In fact, 
running under ssh has a different problem: If you shell out
more than 
once in the same directory, again without doing anything,
the prompt 
disappears and the cursor falls to the left.

Reynir H. Stefánsson (reynirhsmi.is)
-- 
There's no need to assume evil when incompetence explains it
all.


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Hello,

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Reynir Stefansson wrote:

> I recently installed Slackware 8.1 on an agong MMX/233
box. Since it has
> mc 4.5.55, I decided to upgrade it to 4.6.1. FYI, this
distro has kernel
> 2.4.18, gcc 2.95.3 and glibc 2.2.5.
>
> mc 4.6.1 patched with either the 2007-01-04-16 or the
2007-03-09-18
> patch can't move the subshell to the directory the
active pane shows
> ("Can't change to <dir>.". A stock
4.6.1 does not have this problem.

Apply the patch from the link below and report back whether
it
helps:

   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2007-Mar
ch/msg00000.html

> Oh, and here's an oddity that has had me wondering for
a long time: Why
> is it that hopping between panes with each pane on a
different directory
> and shelling out each time without doing anything
causes the prompt to
> bunch up when on the console, but not if you run mc via
ssh? In fact,
> running under ssh has a different problem: If you shell
out more than
> once in the same directory, again without doing
anything, the prompt
> disappears and the cursor falls to the left.

I'll see what's going on.
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Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Apply the patch from the link below and report back
whether it
> helps:
>
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2007-Mar
ch/msg00000.html

Got the patch. May be I buggered up my editing, but I had to
apply hunk 
1 by hand. Anyway, the patch works for bash, tcsh and zsh.
That includes 
paths with spaces and/or high runes.

Fellow n00b note: bash, tcsh and zsh are the shells mc can
use reliably 
as subshells.

Figures I forgot this...

bash --version
bash 2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)

About as long as a Microsoft version string.

Reynir H. Stefánsson (reynirhsmi.is)
-- 
Never goes everything the way you want it to. And maybe
that's how it
should be, to keep you from becoming another Stalin or Pol
Pot.

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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Reynir Stefansson wrote:
>
>> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>>>
>>> Apply the patch from the link below and report
back whether it
>>> helps:
>>>
>>>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2007-Mar
ch/msg00000.html
>>
>> Got the patch. May be I buggered up my editing, but
I had to apply hunk
>> 1 by hand. Anyway, the patch works for bash, tcsh
and zsh. That includes
>> paths with spaces and/or high runes.
>
> Ok. I'll apply the patch to CVS. I hoped that someone
on the
> developer mailing list would test it too but so far I
got no
> responses.

The patch is in CVS now. It should appear in the next
MC snapshot.
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