%general-entities; ]> Vim temporary system The configure 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: cat > src/auto/config.cache << "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 Change the default location of the vimrc configuration file to /tools/etc: echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/tools/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h ./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 --enable-multibyte 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. make install ln -sv vim /tools/bin/vi Create a temporary vimrc to make it function more the way you may expect it to. This is explained more in the final system: cat > /tools/etc/vimrc << "EOF" " Begin /etc/vimrc set nocompatible set backspace=2 set ruler syntax on " End /etc/vimrc EOF