On Oct 9, 12:21 am, Tony Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/10/08 17:22, James Kanze wrote: > > I've just downloaded the sources for vim (under Unix), and > > am having a problem with the build procedure. According to > > src/INSTALL, in order to build for multiple architectures, I > > should create a target directory for each architecture, then > > "`cd' to the directory where you want the object files and > > executables to go and run the `configure' script. > > `configure' automatically checks for the source code in the > > directory that `configure' is in and in `..'."
> > This isn't working, and a quick glance at the configure > > script (both $root/configure and $root/src/configure) show > > that there is nothing in those scripts which tries to figure > > out the directory. (I'm invoking configure with an absolute > > pathname, so ` dirname $0 ` should be sufficient for it to > > find it's subdirectories.) > > For the moment, I'll just go ahead and build like I do with > > a lot of other programs: configure, build and install from > > the root, then do a distclean before repeating for another > > platform. But if this is the way to do it, the > > documentation should be updated. > To build several versions of Vim on a single system, I > recommend the "shadow directory" method. Yes. I noticed this in the documentation shortly after posting (and after generating both the Linux and Solaris versions as explained above). IIRC, it's what I actually did last time (for 7.1); I'd just forgotten it. But the documentation should probably be corrected to only give this method. -- James Kanze (GABI Software) email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Conseils en informatique orientée objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---