Re: [vile] How to build if uname not available?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:18:12PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >>Is there any chance of finding a ready built vile for Centos release 5.2?
> >>The executables on the system report as:-
> >>    ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 
> >> 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
> >>
> >As it turns out this rpm:-
> >
> >   http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora-epel/5/i386//vile-9.8e-1.el5.i386.rpm
> >
> >Worked perfectly on the system in question so all I had to do was
> >extract the executable from the rpm and put it on the system.  Thus no
> >need to go through the pain of building it.  :-)
> 
> hmm - I'm assuming that the loadable filters load properly (for syntax
> highlighting).  The problem I mentioned a few weeks ago happens for the
> 64-bit configuration since the library path isn't setup properly.
> 
Not sure really as I was just desperate to get vile rather than vim when
I was editing files - it's a shell account at my web hosting provider (I
*hate* managing websites via FTP or whatever).

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Chris Green