On 13/11/08 13:42, Dominique Pelle wrote: > 2008/11/13 Peter Princz<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hello François, >> >> thank you, this is a good idea. I'm not granted the root access yet, >> and I'm not allowed to ruin 6.4 that is set up for other users. Best I >> could do is to submit a ticket to the local IT people asking for an >> upgrade. Now I'm waiting for their response. Thank you again. >> >> Have a nice day, >> Peter > > > You don't need root access to compile and install it, if you install it > somewhere in your home directory (i.e. not system wide like /usr/local/...) > > Example: > > $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/vim checkout vim7 > $ cd vim7 > $ ./configure --with-features=huge --prefix=$HOME/opt > $ make > $ make install > > ... and then add $HOME/opt/bin into your PATH. > > -- Dominique
I would agree with both Peter and Dominique here: if the sysadmin agrees to upgrade his system-wide Vim (as he should), it would be better for all users on the system. That would of course be best. But even if he doesn't, no admin privileges are required to compile Vim, and they are also not required to install it in a subfolder of one's own HOME directory. Note: I don't run configure directly, but only through make, with the configure parameters set as environment variables, see http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm -- this avoids losing the configure settings if make someday decides that a reconfig step is needed. (After using "make shadow", I also use different settings in parallel bash sessions, so I can compile both a huge version and a tiny one (or any combination of versions with different featuresets) without one of them clobbering the other's auto/config.cache.) Best regards, Tony. -- There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone. -- Gloria Steinem --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
