%general-entities; ]> Vim temporary system The configure script is full of logic that aborts at the first sign of cross compiling. Set the cached values of those 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_tgent=zero vim_cv_toupper_broken=no vim_cv_tty_group=world ac_cv_sizeof_int=4 EOF Change the default location of the vimrc configuration file to /tools/etc: echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/tools/etc/vimrc"' >> src/feature.h CPPFLAGS="-DUNUSED=" ./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 ln -sv vim /tools/bin/vi