Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 12:06 PM, Matt Connell wrote: > Most > systems will have packages depending on perl, so the package > maintainers think "the average vim user will have perl installed > anyway, so why not enable those optional features?" the answer to that is mod_perl -- So many immigrant groups hav

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread BPJ
Den tors 17 sep. 2020 17:53Ruben Safir skrev: > On 9/17/20 11:23 AM, Matt Connell wrote: > > If you are willing and able to recompile vim, it can be built without > > depending on perl. > I have one question, if you don't mind me indulging. Why would vim need > perl built in as a dependency. It

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 11:46 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > I can do it. I used to do it all the time. This is the right solution, then. I wish I could give you more direct advice for how to remove the dependency, but I've been spoiled by Portage: a simple config file change is all that's needed in

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:23 AM, Matt Connell wrote: > If you are willing and able to recompile vim, it can be built without > depending on perl. I have one question, if you don't mind me indulging. Why would vim need perl built in as a dependency. Its not like, as far as I know, vim uses perl. -- So man

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:23 AM, Matt Connell wrote: >> Can I do this without recompiling vim? > No. > > If you are willing and able to recompile vim, it can be built without > depending on perl. Some systems (Gentoo Portage) make this easy to do, > but if you're using a binary-based distribution, you'll nee

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:18 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Do, 17 Sep 2020, Ruben Safir wrote: > >> I need to fix the dependency of VIM on perl without upgrading or >> changing Perl >> >> vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or director

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 10:44 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > I need to fix the dependency of VIM on perl without upgrading or > changing Perl If the version of vim you're using was compiled with dynamic links to perl libraries (it was), then that vim binary requires perl libraries to run. You'll eithe

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Do, 17 Sep 2020, Ruben Safir wrote: > I need to fix the dependency of VIM on perl without upgrading or > changing Perl > > vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > Can I do this without recompiling vim? What Vim ve

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:00 AM, aroc...@vex.net wrote: > It sounds as though either something has deleted the object file, or a > path setting to find it. nothing like that. It is just needs the dependency removed. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reac

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread arocker
> I need to fix the dependency of VIM on perl without upgrading or > changing Perl > > vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > It sounds as though either something has deleted the object file, or a path setting to find it

VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
I need to fix the dependency of VIM on perl without upgrading or changing Perl vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can I do this without recompiling vim? Reuvain -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our tow