On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:12, howardb21 <howard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I installed the source and tried various work arounds to the standard > make. But this is a large, networked computer system maintained by a > major university. They are not about to give one of their ordinary > usuers root priviliges. And one needed root permissions to run make, > or the compiler. Yes I can ask them to do it for me, but a previous > request like that failed. We may well have to pressure them on the > grounds of accessibility. >
You can install it in your home directory, you don't need root permission for that. When you run the configure step, there is a --prefix option that you can set to a directory that you can write to, e.g., somewhere in your home directory, say /home/howardb21/myruntime, and then after your usual make && make install you'll have your vim binary under /home/howardb21/myruntime/bin, which you'd want to add to your PATH. Regards, -- Jacobo de Vera http://www.jacobodevera.com -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
