On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:33:25PM -0800, MrTomer wrote: > can someone provide steps that can be followed if i want to start > building VIM on my machine? I have gutsy ubuntu. > please provide more than just: > > apt-get source vim > apt-get source vim-dev > > because that fails the configure! i would like instructions, after > which you can go > > ./configure > ./make > > and have the thing running.... > or is that too much to ask? not sure...
As posted by me 2 days ago, with one minor correction: On an Ubuntu system, or any Debian-based system, it's very easy. # Install all required development packages/build dependencies: $ sudo apt-get build-dep vim-full # Change to some directory we don't mind mucking up: $ cd /tmp # Download the vim source: $ apt-get source vim-full # Move to the patches directory $ cd vim-7.1/upstream/patches # Get the latest patches $ python get_patches.py # Move to the toplevel directory containing the debian subdirectory $ cd ../.. # The system I was on already had these packages, but I don't think they get # pulled in automatically by the apt-get build-dep, so you might need this: $ sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot # Then, actually build with $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b # That command will take a while and will pop out one .deb for each variant. Then, you can just $ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/vim-full_7.1*.deb Obviously replacing vim-full with whatever your preferred variant is. Also, this doesn't belong on vim-dev, it belongs on vim-use. vim-dev is for submitting and discussing bug reports and patches. I'm setting the reply-to address accordingly. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
