On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I seem to have a problem where I want to upgrade my version of gvim > > for linux but am somewhat confused by the site.... > > > > there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2.... but I have no idea what a bz2 > > file is and the site doesn't explain it (that I can find...). > > > > so I tried to use vim-6.4-src1.tar.gz and vim-6.4-src2.tar.gz and > > untar'ed them. > > according to the site you need to type "make install" and everything > > will work (assuming a c compiler and such...) but unfortunately, I > > couldn't find a "makefile".... > > > > Not sure why this couldn't be setup to be as easy as installing gvim > > for my windows box... > > > bunzip2 vim-7.1.tar.bz2 > tar -xf vim-7.1.tar > cd vim71 > configure > make > make install
I find the method using aap much simpler: http://www.a-a-p.org/ports.html It downloads all patches automatically. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
