Estimated build time: 0.81 SBU Estimated required disk space: 24 MB |
This package requires its patch to be applied before you can install it. Make sure it's unpacked before running the installation commands.
If you not wish to install Vim, build instructions for alternative editors are available at http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/postlfs/editors.html. Currently, there are instructions for Emacs, nano, and joe.
Install Vim by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../vim-6.1.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\" && make install && ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi |
If you plan to install the X Window system on your LFS system, you might want to re-compile Vim after you have installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI version of the editor which requires X and a few other libraries to be installed. For more information read the Vim documentation.
patch -Np1 -i ../vim-6.1.patch: This patch fixes a compile problem with GCC-3.2.
make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\": Setting this will cause vim to look for the /etc/vimrc file that contains the global vim settings. Normally this file is looked for in /usr/share/vim, but /etc is a more logical place for this kind of file.
Last checked against version 6.1.
efm_filter.pl, efm_perl.pl, ex (link to vim), less.sh, mve.awk, pltags.pl, ref, rview (link to vim), rvim (link to vim), shtags.pl, tcltags, vi (link to vim), view (link to vim), vim, vim132, vim2html.pl, vimdiff (link to vim), vimm, vimspell.sh, vimtutor and xxd
efm_filter.pl is a filter which reads from stdin, copies to stdout and creates an error file that can be read by vim.
efm_perl.pl reformats the error messages of the Perl interpreter for use with the quickfix mode of vim.
ex starts vim in Ex mode.
less.sh is a script which starts vim with less.vim.
mve.awk processes vim errors.
pltags.pl creates a tags file for Perl code, for use by vim.
ref checks the spelling of arguments.
rview is a restricted version of view. No shell commands can be started and vim can't be suspended.
rvim is the restricted version of vim. No shell commands can be started and vim can't be suspended.
shtags.pl generates a tag file for perl scripts.
tcltags generates a tag file for TCL code.
vi starts vim in vi-compatible mode.
view starts vim in read-only mode.
vim starts vim in the normal, default way.
vim132 starts vim with the terminal in 132 column mode.
vim2html.pl converts vim documentation to HTML.
vimdiff edits two or three versions of a file with vim and show differences.
vimm enables the DEC locator input model on a remote terminal.
vimspell.sh is a script which spells a file and generates the syntax statements necessary to highlight in vim.
vimtutor starts the Vim tutor.
xxd makes a hexdump or does the reverse.
Last checked against version 6.0.
Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld, strip
Diffutils: cmp, diff
Fileutils: chmod, cp, ln, mkdir, mv, rm, touch
Find: find
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Net-tools: hostname
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: echo, expr, uname, whoami
Textutils: cat, tr, wc