Installation of Vim
If a user doesn't like vim to be installed as an editor on the LFS system,
he may want to download an alternative and install an editor he
prefers. There are a few hints how to install different editors
available at
http://cvs.linuxfromscratch.org/index.cgi/hints/editors/
Both the vim-rt and vim-src packages need to be unpacked to install Vim.
Both packages will unpack their files into the vim-5.7 directory. This
won't overwrite any files from the other package. So it doesn't matter
in which order it is done. Install Vim by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install &&
cd /usr/bin &&
ln -s vim vi
If a user plans on installing the X Window system on his LFS
system, he might want to re-compile Vim after he has 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.