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authorChris Staub <chris@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-08-05 11:51:34 +0000
committerChris Staub <chris@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-08-05 11:51:34 +0000
commit0d81e3cd3a01cecbcc415ce0a71ac5c7d3153a90 (patch)
tree11861b6e2972feca7f3277955b493f2fbb3a388c /chapter06/vim.xml
parent075d0290cca502bf5071626556a45251a717ebe6 (diff)
Undo change to Vim docs, so that Vim can find them
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10677 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/vim.xml')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/vim.xml31
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml
index edadde175..5d1e512fc 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim.xml
@@ -83,24 +83,7 @@
<para>Install the package:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make HELPSUBLOC=/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; install</userinput></screen>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>HELPSUBLOC=/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Tells Vim to install its documentation into
- <filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>
- instead of
- <filename class="directory">/usr/share/&vim-docdir;/doc</filename>,
- for better consistency with the documentation location for other
- packages.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
<para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
<command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
@@ -113,6 +96,14 @@ for L in /usr/share/man/{,*/}man1/vim.1; do
ln -sv vim.1 $(dirname $L)/vi.1
done</userinput></screen>
+ <para>By default, Vim's documentation is installed in <filename
+ class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>. The following symlink
+ allows the documentation to be accessed via <filename
+ class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making
+ it consistent with the location of documentation for other packages:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv ../&vim-docdir;/doc /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>If an X Window System is going to be installed on the LFS
system, it may be necessary to recompile Vim after installing X. Vim
comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some
@@ -195,13 +186,13 @@ set spell</literal></screen>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg> ex (link to vim), rview (link to vim), rvim (link to vim), vi
(link to vim), view (link to vim), vim, vimdiff (link to vim), vimtutor,
and xxd</seg>
- <seg>/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;, /usr/share/vim</seg>
+ <seg>/usr/share/vim</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>