Easiest way to upgrade to vim 7.2 in RedHat

deibertine · 05-20-2010, 10:20 AM

I have vim ver. 6.3.82 and want to upgrade vim to 7.2 to support certain dev tasks needed done within. Our RedHat doesnt have a yum repo and not subscribed to the RH network so I cant do it through their sw distribution support.
Linux version 2.6.9-42.ELsmp (bhcompile@ls20-bc1-13.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-2)) #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 64bit

Can some one point me to the right direction on how an easy way to upgrade vim?

I'd greatly appreciate it. Cheers!
DB

AlucardZero · 05-20-2010, 10:36 AM

Grab the vim sources and build yourself?

deibertine · 05-20-2010, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

Grab the vim sources and build yourself?

Yes that's an easy thought of doing in which I have initiated, but unfortunately I ran into some dependency issues such as GLIBC_2.xx is required to run vim...

I've also ran a direct rpm using the --nodpes switch but this did not do the trick either.

Any other ideas?
Thanks mate!
DB

AlucardZero · 05-20-2010, 01:21 PM

Don't know what you mean. I just successfully compiled and ran vim 7.2 on RHEL 4.8 without any dependency issues.

Code:

vim72]$ ./src/vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled May 20 2010 14:19:11)
vim72]$ uname -a
Linux server.example.com 2.6.9-89.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 10:34:33 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

deibertine · 05-20-2010, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

Don't know what you mean. I just successfully compiled and ran vim 7.2 on RHEL 4.8 without any dependency issues.

Code:

vim72]$ ./src/vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled May 20 2010 14:19:11)
vim72]$ uname -a
Linux server.example.com 2.6.9-89.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 10:34:33 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Can you please tell me which package did you use and where to get this?
Also if you can post the install process you've done that would surely be appreciated.
I've just tried and it complained about GLIBC_2.xxx is needed to run vim.

AlucardZero · 05-20-2010, 08:05 PM

I downloaded and compiled from source. http://www.vim.org/download.php#unix . Unpack, cd, ./configure, make, make install; vim 7.2 in /usr/local/bin.

deibertine · 05-20-2010, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

I downloaded and compiled from source. http://www.vim.org/download.php#unix . Unpack, cd, ./configure, make, make install; vim 7.2 in /usr/local/bin.

Thought I'm hitting the home run till I came into a road block, mate :-(

gui_at_fs.c:2607: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2609: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2631: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2633: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2683: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2685: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2687: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2689: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2691: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gui_at_fs.c:2693: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_ATHENA -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -g -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -o objects/netbeans.o netbeans.c
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_ATHENA -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -g -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include version.c -o objects/version.o
gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o vim objects/buffer.o objects/charset.o objects/diff.o objects/digraph.o objects/edit.o objects/eval.o objects/ex_cmds.o objects/ex_cmds2.o objects/ex_docmd.o objects/ex_eval.o objects/ex_getln.o objects/fileio.o objects/fold.o objects/getchar.o objects/hardcopy.o objects/hashtab.o objects/if_cscope.o objects/if_xcmdsrv.o objects/main.o objects/mark.o objects/memfile.o objects/memline.o objects/menu.o objects/message.o objects/misc1.o objects/misc2.o objects/move.o objects/mbyte.o objects/normal.o objects/ops.o objects/option.o objects/os_unix.o objects/pathdef.o objects/popupmnu.o objects/quickfix.o objects/regexp.o objects/screen.o objects/search.o objects/spell.o objects/syntax.o objects/tag.o objects/term.o objects/ui.o objects/undo.o objects/window.o objects/gui.o objects/gui_athena.o objects/gui_x11.o objects/pty.o objects/gui_beval.o objects/gui_at_sb.o objects/gui_at_fs.o objects/netbeans.o objects/version.o -lXaw -lXt -lXt -lX11 -lm -lncurses -lnsl -lselinux -lacl -lattr -lgpm -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so when searching for -lXaw
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXaw
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [vim] Error 1

It seems stuck on that as Im unable to do "make" and proceed with the compile...Please help. Cheers, DB

AlucardZero · 05-20-2010, 09:39 PM

Install whatever the Xaw library is.. From Google it seems to be in the Xorg development packages.. so install the xorg-x11-devel package and try again.

deibertine · 05-21-2010, 02:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

Install whatever the Xaw library is.. From Google it seems to be in the Xorg development packages.. so install the xorg-x11-devel package and try again.

Looks like I gawt it! :-) After searching for tons and the right xorg-devel package, this was the one that I need: xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.63.src.rpm

It compiled and installed alright, however I still see vim ver. 6.3.82.
But when I go to /usr/local/bin/vim, I see ver. 7.2

How can I correct this?

DB

AlucardZero · 05-21-2010, 09:05 AM

Either put /usr/local/bin on your PATH before /usr/bin, or uninstall your vim RPM which will not touch your /usr/local installation.

deibertine · 05-23-2010, 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

Either put /usr/local/bin on your PATH before /usr/bin, or uninstall your vim RPM which will not touch your /usr/local installation.

Great thanks for your assistance mate! :-)