Details on this package are located in Section 10.64.3, “Contents of Vim.”
The Vim package contains a powerful text editor.
We will cross-compile Vim so that we can have a text editor in
/tools. 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.
The following patch merges all updates from the 7.4 Branch from the Vim developers:
patch -Np1 -i ../vim-7.4-branch_update-5.patch
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
Prepare Vim for compilation:
./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
The meaning of the new configure options:
--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.
--enable-gui=no
--disable-gtktest --disable-xim --with-features=normal
--disable-gpm --without-x --disable-netbeans
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.
--with-tlib=ncurses
Tells Vim to use Ncurses as its terminal library.
Compile the package:
make
Install the package:
make install
Many users are accustomed to using vi instead of vim. Some programs, such as vigr and vipw, also use vi. Create a symlink to permit execution of vim when users habitually enter vi and allow programs that use vi to work:
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 /tools/etc/vimrc
set nocompatible
set backspace=2
set ruler
syntax on
" End /tools/etc/vimrc
EOF
Details on this package are located in Section 10.64.3, “Contents of Vim.”