[f5ab23e] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Vim</title>
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| 5 |
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[3b3e965d] | 6 | <para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
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[7bfad05] | 7 | install it. This patch fixes a compile problem with GCC-3.2:</para>
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[f5ab23e] | 8 |
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| 9 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../vim-&vim-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <para>Prepare Vim to be compiled:</para>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para><screen><userinput>make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\"</userinput></screen></para>
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| 18 |
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[7bfad05] | 19 | <para>The meaning of the make option is:</para>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <itemizedlist>
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| 22 | <listitem><para><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\":</userinput>
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| 23 | This option above causes vim to look for the
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| 24 | <filename>/etc/vimrc</filename> file which contains vim's global settings.
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| 25 | Normally, this file is assumed to be located in <filename
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| 26 | class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>, but we feel that
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| 27 | <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> is a more logical place for this
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| 28 | kind of file.</para></listitem>
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| 29 | </itemizedlist>
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| 30 |
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[f5ab23e] | 31 | <para>The <emphasis>CPPFLAGS</emphasis> option above causes vim to look
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| 32 | for the /etc/vimrc file which contains vim's global settings. Normally,
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| 33 | this file is assumed to be located in <filename>/usr/share/vim</filename>,
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| 34 | but we feel that <filename>/etc</filename> is a more logical place for
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| 35 | this kind of file.</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Finish installing the package:</para>
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[3b3e965d] | 38 |
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[f5ab23e] | 39 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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[6370fa6] | 40 |
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[f5ab23e] | 41 | <para>Vim can run in old-fashioned <emphasis>vi</emphasis> mode by
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| 42 | creating a symlink, which may be created with the following command:</para>
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[6370fa6] | 43 |
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[f5ab23e] | 44 | <para><screen><userinput>ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen></para>
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[6370fa6] | 45 |
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[93bd6644] | 46 | <para>If you plan to install the X Window system on your LFS
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[9e4e34c] | 47 | system, you might want to re-compile Vim after you have installed X. Vim
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[6370fa6] | 48 | comes with a nice GUI version of the editor which requires X and a few
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| 49 | other libraries to be installed. For more information read the Vim
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[b822811] | 50 | documentation.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 51 |
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| 52 | </sect2>
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| 53 |
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