Re: Building VIM 9 on Ubuntu

On 2022-08-10, 'J S' via vim_use wrote:
> Not trying to be difficult or insulting or anything like that, but so it boils
> down to, no, there is no easy way to do it.
> You (i.e., me) just have to figure it out. By the way, my system doesn't have
> "build-dep". It says no such package.
>
> Right?

From that error message, it appears that you tried to install
build-dep as a package rather than use it as a command.

On my system, Ubuntu 20.04, and according to my notes, also when it
was 18.04, the command is just

$ sudo apt build-dep vim-gtk3

You could also try apt-get:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gtk3

It's use is documented in the apt-get(8) man page but not in the
apt(8) page, which is a little frustrating, although it works in
both.

Also, that was good advice from Tony. That's what I do, source
a file of build-option environment variables. I probably got the
idea from his page. Then you never have to run ./configure
yourself. Just execute "make" and if make needs to run ./configure,
it does; otherwise it doesn't. That saves a lot of time and
thinking.

Regards,
Gary

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