On Nov 9, 1:01 am, "Christian Brabandt" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, November 8, 2010 5:10 am, John Little wrote: > > And what to do if sudo is not possible? > > You could try running with su -c 'command'. But neither su nor sudo > are required by Posix SUSv3[1], so su might not be installed. And > of course you need to know the super user password.
What I was getting at was being in the position of not being able to become root, whether su, sudo, logging on as root or whatever. I've been at a site that refused to install libraries to support compiling vim: "the company provides vi, and instant coffee, that's been good enough so far, and the company knows best, so developers should be happy with vi and drink instant coffee" (I paraphrase, but do not exaggerate.) However, I was free to build stuff under my own user directory (sort of...). So, I was asking, can someone give a few pointers about installing needed libraries and headers in a user directory and building vim from there? Regards, John -- 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
