On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:17:38AM -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> OK, a quick check to see that I have the build-essential and
>> linux-headers-$(uname -r) packages on this box, fetch the 7.3 source,
>> and "sudo make":
>
> You shouldn't need `sudo` for the `make` portion. Just if you then
> `make install` to directories that you don't own.
>
Agreed. That is my normal practice, but I don't appear to read so well
late at night, and misinterpreted src/INSTALL.
>> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
>> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
>> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
>> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
>> no terminal library found
>> checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
>> You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
>>
>> Fine, let's do:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install ncurses
>> ...
>
> Partly from the FAQ[1]... save yourself a bunch of trouble and do:
>
> $ rpm -qf $(which vim)
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep [whatever the prior command reported]
Thank you for the build-dep hint. When apt showed that it only had
source for vim 7.1, I went to vim.org for 7.3. Using apt's build-dep for
an old version of vim to fudge a build of externally sourced source did
not occur to me.
There's no rpm on ubuntu, but it wasn't needed.
Thanks again.
Erik
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