Sihera Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > > On 25/10/2019 17:53, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Fr, 25 Okt 2019, Sihera Andre wrote: > > > >> The reason I don't "simply" do "make install" is because, in the past, > >> what was installed from a locally checked-out repository and what was > >> shipped with the operating system package manager (in this case, Ubuntu) > >> often did not match even if I made sure to check out the same version > >> (or slightly newer) as the repository package versions. > >> > >> I got tired a long time ago of typing "make install" on a number of > >> projects (not just ViM) just to have everything stop working as they > >> destroyed the environment that the OS package manager was doing a very > >> good job of maintaining. I ended up then (and still do now) using git to > >> version control a good proportion of my /usr/local and /usr/share settings > >> just so that when I do a "make install" on a locally-built package and > >> everything stops working I can simply just do a "git checkout" to bring > >> it all back.
Never install things in /usr/bin/ Files there are managed by Ubuntu packages. Instead, you should install vim in /usr/local/bin. If you just do... $ ./configure --with-features=huge $ make -j8 $ sudo make install Then vim will be installed in /usr/local (including binary in /usr/local/bin and runtime in /usr/local/share/...) so everything will be consistent, and it won't interfere with Ubuntu packages. Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path before /usr/bin to run your own version of Vim rather than the Ubuntu Vim. Regards Dominique -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAON-T_j%2BD%2BttnFRZE5RtK7RVgLSpAFfhQHh1UwQ%3D1sT4afmeQA%40mail.gmail.com.
