Installation of Vim

Installation of Vim If you don't like vim to be installed as an editor on your LFS system, you may want to download an alternative and install an editor you prefer. There are a few hints how to install different editors available at http://cvs.linuxfromscratch.org/index.cgi/hints/editors/ You need to unpack both the vim-rt and vim-src packages to install Vim. Both packages will unpack their files into the vim-5.7 directory. This won't overwrite any files from the other package. So it doesn't mattter in which order you do it. Install Vim by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install && cd /usr/bin && ln -s vim vi

If you are planning on installing the X Window system on your LFS system, you might want to re-compile Vim after you have installed X. Vim comes with a nice GUI version of the editor which requires X and a few other libraries to be installed. For more information read the Vim documentation.