Re: Can't compile VIM

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:46:16PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying
> to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I
> run make:
> objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize':
> objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x1b4c): undefined reference to
> `term_set_winsize'

There's a note in src/os_unix.c as follows:

        /* 
         * NOTE: if you get an error here that term_set_winsize() is
         * undefined, check the output of configure.  It could probably not
         * find a ncurses, termcap or termlib library.
         */

So you probably want to make sure libncurses5-dev is installed.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]