Hi Matthew Ok thanks for your help. You were right, this works like a charm on Gutsy, and before i tried it on fiesty. I am now building and even debugging vim! thanks again...
On Nov 5, 8:30 pm, Matthew Wozniski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:45:54AM +0100, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > Matthew Wozniski wrote: > > > 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 didn't, or Google Groups overrode you, but that doesn't matter. Vim-dev > > is > > also for questions about configuring and compiling Vim. These questions > > definitely belong here. > > Ah, terribly sorry. Usually, -dev groups are only for patches/bug reports. > And google groups definitely just overrode me. Ah, well. > > > As I said a couple of days ago, see also > >http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htmfor a step-by-step > > tutorial about building Vim from the official sources (not any "debian" or > > "ubuntu" sources which might be less than up-to-date or contain patches not > > sactioned by Bram) on any Unix-like system. > > They cannot be out of date, since part of the install process ftp's > down the latest patches from ftp.vim.org, and they produce packages > that can be installed through your package manager, rather than > requiring contortions to track dynamic library dependencies and such. > ./configure && make && make install is nice and all, but it has > serious shortcomings in terms of versioning and cleanup, especially > with regard to tracking which versions of all of your shared object > files you still need around on your system. > > Of course, they do include a few unofficial patches (25 in the latest > Ubuntu sources), but that's certainly not a bad thing; it is, after > all, how open source moves forward, and most of them will certainly be > moved to upstream as soon as the distro maintainers have time to > handle it. > > I find it rather silly to suggest using `make install' when there's > a better alternative being offered. > > > Best regards, > > Tony. > > ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
