SECTION 35 - BUILDING VIM FROM SOURCE


35.1. How do I build Vim from the sources on a Unix system?

For a Unix system, follow these steps to build Vim from the sources:

- Download the source and run-time filles archive (vim-##.tar.bz2) from the
  ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix directory.
- Extract the archive using the bzip2  and tar utilities using the command:

        $ bunzip2 -c <filename> | tar -xf -

- Run the 'make' command to configure  and build Vim with the default
  configuration.
- Run 'make install' command to installl Vim in the default directory.

To enable/disable various Vim features, before running the 'make' command
you can run the 'configure' command with different flags to include/exclude
the various Vim features. To list all the available options for the
'configure' command, use:

    $ configure -help
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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Reformat the project3Dada.txt file to make more accesible

$file = '/u/home/jhart2/perl/project3Data.txt';         # Name the file
open(INFO, $file);              # Open the file for input

use strict;
use warnings;

my $NoOfCharsPerLine = 80;
my $NoOfLinesPerPage = 100;
my $RightMargin = 7;
my $header = 3;
my $footer = 5;
my @argument;

# Read command line arguments

@argument = split(/=/, $ARGV[0]);

if ($argument[1] =~ /\D/)
{
        print "Nonumeric value for lines option \"$argument[1]\" --script aborted\n";
}

if ($argument[0] eq "--chars")
{
        $NoOfCharsPerLine = $argument[1];
}

elsif ($argument[0] eq "--lines")
{
        $NoOfLinesPerPage = $argument[1];
}

else
{
        print "unrecognized command line option \"$argument[0]\" --script aborted\n";
 exit;
}

close(INFO);                    # Close the file

        print "$NoOfCharsPerLine\n";
        print "$NoOfLinesPerPage\n";