Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-08 Thread David Fishburn
>> I did a --prefix=/usr > That's a bad idea. You should never put your own > things in /usr/bin since it's meant to be managed by > apt packages. You can mess up your Ubuntu packages > when doing that. Point taken. On my next VM I will leave the prefix and see why I may have changed it so long

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-07 Thread John Little
On Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 9:38:37 AM UTC+13, Dominique Pelle wrote: > You'll need to make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your path > before /usr/bin which I think is normally the case by > default on Ubuntu. I just checked on an uncustomized instance of 16.04, and indeed /usr/local/bin

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-07 Thread Dominique Pellé
David Fishburn wrote: > Thank you gentlemen, I have a working GUI Vim now on Ubuntu. > > One last problem. > > gvim > :ver > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov 24 2016 16:44:48) > Included patches: 1-1689 > Extra patches: 8.0.0056 > Modified by

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-07 Thread David Fishburn
Thank you gentlemen, I have a working GUI Vim now on Ubuntu. One last problem. gvim :ver VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov 24 2016 16:44:48) Included patches: 1-1689 Extra patches: 8.0.0056 Modified by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Compiled by

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-07 Thread John Little
On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 2:30:56 PM UTC+13, David Fishburn wrote: > I can't really think what else to try to install to get the GUI support. In all that you didn't do sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome I booted into a xenial iso just now. This gives a vanilla, out-of-the-box xenial

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-06 Thread Dominique Pellé
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 2:30 AM David Fishburn wrote: > > I am having a hard time getting gvim to compile on Ubuntu 16.04 ...snip... > I can't really think what else to try to install to get the GUI support. Try this: # First install package needed to build vim $ sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-06 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 3:18 PM Ken Takata wrote: > > Hi David, > > 2018/11/6 Tue 10:30:56 UTC+9 David Fishburn wrote: > > I am having a hard time getting gvim to compile on Ubuntu 16.04 > > > >root > > When I run this: > > > > > > ./configure --enable-gui > > > > > > > > > > checking for X...

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-06 Thread Ken Takata
Hi David, 2018/11/6 Tue 10:30:56 UTC+9 David Fishburn wrote: > I am having a hard time getting gvim to compile on Ubuntu 16.04 > > > When I run this: > > > ./configure --enable-gui > > > > > checking for X... (cached) no > checking if X11 header files can be found... yes > checking

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-06 Thread David Fishburn
Thanks for the response Christian. > and uncomment the `#deb-src` lines. Here is the updated sources. # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted deb-src

Re: Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-05 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Mo, 05 Nov 2018, David Fishburn wrote: > I am having a hard time getting gvim to compile on Ubuntu 16.04 > > When I run this: > > ./configure --enable-gui > > checking for X... (cached) no > checking if X11 header files can be found... yes > checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI

Compiling Vim on Ubuntu

2018-11-05 Thread David Fishburn
I am having a hard time getting gvim to compile on Ubuntu 16.04 When I run this: ./configure --enable-gui checking for X... (cached) no checking if X11 header files can be found... yes checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support checking for X11/SM/SMlib.h... (cached) no This is a

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-12-13 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 23/11/09 14:55, bill lam wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Mr.SpOOn wrote: Hi, I'd like to compile Vim on a fresh installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. Last time I compiled Vim I followed this guide: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm I think someone here in the list pointed

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-12-13 Thread Tony Mechelynck
difference between gtk version and gnome version is the session support. to enable gnome session support you should edit the Makefile or give command-line option to .configure, no additional dependencies required. Compiling vim on Ubuntu is a very easy task and it definitely do not require

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-12-13 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 23/11/09 16:23, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: Saluton Mr.SpOOn :) Mr.SpOOnm...@gmail.com skribis: [...] Well, there are archives to download them easier, so that would not be a problem. The problem would be to patch them all. I shall write a script for that. I was just wondering if

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-12-13 Thread pansz
Tony Mechelynck 写道: Avoiding handmade changes to the Makefile also ensures that _patches_ to the Makefile will apply cleanly. If you use svn then nothing will broken. at least patches to Makefile never have problem for me. patches to the Makefile will merge with my own handmade changes.

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
Saluton Mr.SpOOn :) Mr.SpOOn m...@gmail.com skribis: I'd like to compile Vim on a fresh installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. Last time I compiled Vim I followed this guide: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm I think someone here in the list pointed me to that link. Very

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:33:20PM +0100, Mr.SpOOn wrote: Hi, I'd like to compile Vim on a fresh installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. Last time I compiled Vim I followed this guide: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm I think someone here in the list pointed me to that

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread Mr.SpOOn
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: Tricky. Unless you really HATE some option (or support) that came with one of the flavors of VIM (tiny, small, big, huge), I strongly recommend you to stick to one of these. Probably a big version will be enough for you. In any case, :help feature-list and

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread Dennis Benzinger
Hi Carlo! Mr.SpOOn wrote: Hi, I'd like to compile Vim on a fresh installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. Last time I compiled Vim I followed this guide: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm I think someone here in the list pointed me to that link. I have just some question:

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Mr.SpOOn wrote: Hi, I'd like to compile Vim on a fresh installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. Last time I compiled Vim I followed this guide: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm I think someone here in the list pointed me to that link. In addition to

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
Saluton Mr.SpOOn :) Mr.SpOOn m...@gmail.com skribis: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: Tricky. Unless you really HATE some option (or support) that came with one of the flavors of VIM (tiny, small, big, huge), I strongly recommend you to stick to one of these. Probably a big version will be

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread Mr.SpOOn
2009/11/23 Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado raul...@gmail.com: Saluton Mr.SpOOn :) Mr.SpOOn m...@gmail.com skribis: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: ;) Well, then you can use a huge version and fine tune the configuration. It is not the easiest thing on Earth, though. And remember: some

Re: Compiling vim on Ubuntu 64 bit

2009-11-23 Thread Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
Saluton Mr.SpOOn :) Mr.SpOOn m...@gmail.com skribis: Well, there are archives to download them easier, so that would not be a problem. The problem would be to patch them all. I shall write a script for that. I was just wondering if I had to download all of them. rsync will download only