source: BOOK/temp-system/common/vim.xml@ 031870f9

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<sect1 id="ch-temp-system-vim" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="vim.html"?>

  <title>Vim-&vim-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-temp-system-vim">
    <primary sortas="a-Vim">Vim</primary>
    <secondary>temporary system</secondary>
  </indexterm>

  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of VIM</title>

    <para os="a">We will cross-compile Vim so that we can have a text editor in
    <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. Vim is not technically
    necessary in the temporary system, in that it is not there to satisfy any
    package dependencies in the final system, but we believe that a text editor
    is an extremely useful tool to have there.<!-- If you prefer a different
    editor, you may check the hints project at <ulink url="&hints-root;" />
    for information on cross-compiling other text editors. (placeholder - 
    uncomment this sentence if/when such information actually exists)--></para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>

    <para os="c1">The <command>configure</command> script is full of logic
    that aborts at the first sign of cross compiling. Work around this by
    setting the cached values of several tests with the following
    command:</para>

<screen os="c2"><userinput>cat &gt; src/auto/config.cache &lt;&lt; "EOF"
vim_cv_getcwd_broken=no
vim_cv_memmove_handles_overlap=yes
vim_cv_stat_ignores_slash=no
vim_cv_terminfo=yes
vim_cv_toupper_broken=no
vim_cv_tty_group=world
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para os="b">Change the default location of
    the <filename>vimrc</filename> configuration file to <filename
    class="directory">/tools/etc</filename>:</para>

<screen os="c"><userinput>echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/tools/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>

<screen os="e"><userinput>./configure \
    --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
    --prefix=/tools --enable-multibyte --enable-gui=no \
    --disable-gtktest --disable-xim --with-features=normal \
    --disable-gpm --without-x --disable-netbeans \
    --with-tlib=ncurses</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist os="f">
      <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--enable-multibyte</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This optional but highly recommended switch enables support
          for editing files in multibyte character encodings. This is needed
          if using a locale with a multibyte character set. This switch is
          also helpful to be able to edit text files initially created in
          Linux distributions like Fedora that use UTF-8 as a default
          character set.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--enable-gui=no --disable-gtktest --disable-xim --with-features=normal --disable-gpm --without-x --disable-netbeans</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>These options prevent Vim from trying to link to libraries
          that might be on the host but won't exist inside the temporary
          build environment.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--with-tlib=ncurses</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Tells Vim to use Ncurses as its terminal library.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>

<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../final-system/common/vim.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='m'])"/>

<screen os="n"><userinput>ln -sv vim /tools/bin/vi</userinput></screen>

    <para os="tv1">Create a temporary vimrc to make it function more the way you may
    expect it to. This is explained more in the final system:</para>

<screen os="tv2"><userinput>cat &gt; /tools/etc/vimrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>" Begin /tools/etc/vimrc

set nocompatible
set backspace=2
set ruler
syntax on

" End /tools/etc/vimrc</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
    linkend="contents-vim" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>