Re: (Endless!) Make Problems on SunOS

howard Schwartz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well I am trying to compile vim from source on a large Sun OS machine
> hosted by a university. I am a meager user without root privleges.
> Whenever
> I try this kind of thing on a large machine maintained by somebody
> other than me, I'm treated to an endless sequence of error
> messages that takes days to sort out: I dont have the right permissions,
> some libraries are missing or in the wrong directories, the PATH variable
> doesnt have the right paths, the compiler is the wrong one or the wrong
> version, etc. etc.
>
> I am not a makefile guru, but I aint stupid either! Suggestions for
> getting
> past the first few errors on this one?
>
> uname -a gives this info. about the machine and OS:
>
> SunOS ubunix1.acsu.buffalo.edu 5.9 Generic_122300-56 sun4u sparc
> UNW,Sun-Fire-V245
>
> The initial error message seems to say the bourne shell cant execute
> the configure script (for some reason?):
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/ubfs/myfiles/t/a/talmy/ubunix/vim73/src'
> rm -f auto/config.status auto/config.cache config.log auto/config.log
> rm -f auto/config.h auto/link.log auto/link.sed auto/config.mk
> touch auto/config.h
> cp config.mk.dist auto/config.mk
> GUI_INC_LOC="" GUI_LIB_LOC="" \
> CC="" CPPFLAGS="" CFLAGS="" \
> LDFLAGS="" srcdir="." \
> ./configure --disable-gui --without-x \
> \
> \
> \
> \
> \
> \
> \
> \
>
> /bin/sh: ./configure: cannot execute
> make[1]: *** [config] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/ubfs/myfiles/t/a/talmy/ubunix/vim73/src'
> make: *** [first] Error 2
>
I don't have a Sun machine to play with this, but the following should
work assuming that you have the vim73 source code and all necessary
libraries on your system:

cd [wherever]/vim73
chmod 755 configure [you shouldn't have to do this, but given your
error message...]
mkdir $HOME/vim73 [this may not be necessary, but I'm being lazy
and haven't checked it out]
./configure --prefix=$HOME/vim73
make
make install

The binaries should end up in $HOME/vim73/bin and the manual and
whatnot in $HOME/vim73/share . You'll probably want to put $HOME/vim73
on your PATH.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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