On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Matt Wozniski wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, you might have 'curses' or 'ncurses' installed, but you also > > need 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-dev' (I don't know the correct > > name). > > > > You'll probably need several such packages. The following is > > probably your easiest approach: > > > >> Matt Wozniski wrote on February 11th: > >> > >> > Or just "sudo apt-get build-dep vim" to get all of the > >> > dependencies needed to build the version that's in the > >> > repositories. In theory, that might not be all of the things you > >> > need to build a vim that you're ./configuring yourself, since it > >> > won't include headers needed for features that aren't compiled > >> > into vim-gnome. In practice, though, vim-gnome includes nearly > >> > all features, so that's not really a problem. At the very least, > >> > it's the best jumping off point, since the worst case is that you > >> > need to track down one or two more missing packages. > > Unfortunately, that only works on deb-based systems, not RPM ones. > I'd hope that RPM based systems have something similar, but I don't > know about it; all of the Linux systems I've ever admin'ed have been > Debian-derived.
Ah, sorry. I haven't used either RPM- or deb-based distros for a very long time, much preferring Gentoo. Googling 'fedora apt-get build-dep' suggests the Fedora version of that command is: yum-builddep vim-enhanced -- Best, Ben -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
