Re: How do I add the option +xterm_clipboard to terminal vim

On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 8:46:28 AM UTC-8, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2016-03-07, Bee wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 11:26:21 PM UTC-8, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > > On 2016-03-06, Bee wrote:
> > > > How do I add the option +xterm_clipboard to terminal vim?
> > > >
> > > > I can compile vim with all patches,
> > > > but do not know how to get the option +xterm_clipboard.
> > >
> > > I think you will get +xterm_clipboard if you run ./configure with
> > > the --with-x option.
>
> I normally build vim with the "normal" features in an X11
> environment and it "just works". I found from reading the code and
> "./configure --help" that --with-x should give you the clipboard.
> Since that's not working, I suspect that there is some development
> library missing from your system.
>
> Note that building the "normal" or "huge" version should
> automatically give you clipboard support: 1) if the required
> libraries are accessible; and 2) you haven't given ./configure some
> option that disables clipboard support.
>
> You might take a look at the output of ./configure to see if it
> reports any problems with X-related features. The results of
> running ./configure are in src/auto/config.log. Frankly, I find
> that file hard to read. What I usually do when I'm having
> configuration problems is to capture the stderr and stdout from
> ./configure like this:
>
> ./configure {my options} 2>&1 | tee ../configure.out
>
> Regards,
> Gary

ubuntu 15.10
I installed libx11-dev but still the x11 headers were not found and so xterm_clipboard was not compiled.

Then installed xorg-dev, a meta-package including many files, then +xterm_clipboard got compiled.

Thank you for the suggestions,
web search eventually pointed to xorg-dev.

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