Thanks for reply. I am working on Linux machine and the problem was resolved recently.
On Oct 5, 3:36 am, björn <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 October 2010 22:21, ksamdev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > HI, > > > I do not have ROOT (SUDO) privileges on my office computer. Therefore > > I installed vim 7.2 locally into: > > > ~/Applications > > > It works fine. Now, I'd like to upgrade to v7.3 and it does not work > > because of ncurses library that is missing on my computer. > > > So, I downloaded ncurses-dev and installed into: > > > ~/Applications/ncurses > > > When I try to configure vim 7.3: > > > ./configure --enable-gui=no --without-x -with-features=huge --prefix= > > $HOME/Applications/vim --with-tlib=$HOME/Applications/ncurses > > > I get error: > > > checking whether stack_t has an ss_base field... no > > checking --with-tlib argument... /my/home/folder/Applications/ncurses > > checking for linking with /my/home/folder/Applications/ncurses > > library... configure: error: FAILED > > > What is wrong? > > You are not the first to have problems with ncurses. As far as I can > tell the problems usually appear because of multiple versions being > installed. Why did you download ncurses instead of using the version > that comes with OS X? You shouldn't have to specify "--with-tlib". > > Instead of building your own version it may be easier to just download > the latest MacVim build [1] and put that in your /Applications folder. > Then create an alias to "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim" > and you can use it without the GUI. > > Björn > > [1]http://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/downloads -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
