9. Installing Vim

Restart your system in the LFS system. From now on you don't need to start your normal Linux system anymore. The reason we had to do this is because the LFS system was lacking a text editor.

9.1 Preparing the system for the Vim installation

Installing Ncurses

In order to install Vim we need to have the ncurses libraries installed.

• Unpack the Ncurses archive
• Configure the package by running configure --with-shared

Because Ncurses isn't 100% correct according to the latest C standard, we need to compile it with gcc2723

• Compile the package by running make CC=/usr/gcc2723/bin/gcc
• Install the terminfo files by running make install.data
• Go to the test directory and run a few of the programs to verify that the libraries are working
• Install the libraries by running make install

9.2 Installing Vim

Vim comes in two separate parts: A 'src' package and a 'rt' (run-time) package. You need both in order to install Vim. If you put both archives in the same directory, the unpacked files of both archives will appear in the same directory that will be created when you unpack the first (it doesn't matter which one you unpack first).

• Unpack the Vim-src and the Vim-rt archives
• Configure the package by running configure

Also Vim doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.2, so we have to compile it with gcc 2.7.2.3 as well.

• Compile the package by running make CC=/usr/gcc2723/bin/gcc
• Install the package by running make install