Vim temp system

[Joe Ciccone]

Add a optional step to build vim in the temp system.

[William Harrington]

I do agree with this, and it was brought up a while ago in the IRC channel. In chapter 10 to verify edits done to files, it would be very good to use vim (or some other editor) to view changes rather than grep for the changes or cat and then look through the changes, especially for specs. I suggest vim go into the temp tools so an editor other than a stream editor is available in chapter 10 while building the system. I often find myself opening another terminal to connect then go to the file in the /mnt/clfs hierarchy to check with the host editor.

Any input...?

William

[Joe Ciccone]

I'd love todo this aswell. I havn't tested any methods of building Vim yet. But I'm assuming that it can't be too much different from sysroot.

Apply the cross_compilation patch from the sysroot book.

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
make
make install
ln -s vim /tools/bin/vi

Then we just need to create a basic vimrc, probably the same one that's suggested in the final system.

I'm pushing up to clfs 1.1.0 from 1.2.0. This is something that should work fairly well thanks to clfs sysroot.

[Joe Ciccone]

Bumping back up to 1.2.0

[William Harrington]

Replying to jciccone:

Add a optional step to build vim in the temp system.

Look at this thread for cross compiling vim for the temp system:

​http://www.mail-archive.com/vim_dev@googlegroups.com/msg00887.html

I'm working on it as we speak, however, there will be changes need from 64 bit and 32 bit hosts for a variable or two (Particularly int). But that is what needs to be done. vimrc isn't needed. Matter of fact, the temp system doesn't need any vimrc whatsoever, it should just be a default. People can change vimrc if they wish.

[William Harrington]

Replying to kb0iic:

Replying to jciccone:

Add a optional step to build vim in the temp system.

Look at this thread for cross compiling vim for the temp system:

​http://www.mail-archive.com/vim_dev@googlegroups.com/msg00887.html

I'm working on it as we speak, however, there will be changes need from 64 bit and 32 bit hosts for a variable or two (Particularly int). But that is what needs to be done. vimrc isn't needed. Matter of fact, the temp system doesn't need any vimrc whatsoever, it should just be a default. People can change vimrc if they wish.

I've used this for the powerpc64 build so far:

ac_cv_sizeof_int=4 vim_cv_getcwd_broken=no vim_cv_memmove_handles_overlap=yes vim_cv_stat_ignores_slash=yes vim_cv_tgetent=zero vim_cv_terminfo=yes vim_cv_toupper_broken=no vim_cv_tty_group=world CC="${CC} ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/tools --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} --with-tlib=ncurses --with-features=tiny

[Joe Ciccone]

I already tackled this in clfs sysroot. All we have todo is copy it over.

[Jim Gifford]

Added r4468