On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 19:44 -0800, Bill Rees wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 18:33 -0800, Bill Rees wrote: > > > > > >> I downloaded the vim source code in fc 4 and behold. It requires > >>libselinux-devel sources in order to compile but I cannot find that srpm > >>on fedora.redhat.com/download. I can find libselinux itself which I'm > >>tyring now to see if that will work but I'll have to dummy up a .pc file > >>to satisfy the configure script. Would someone clue me in on where > >>libselinux-devel.srpm lives? > >> > >>Bill Rees > >> > >> > >> > >Maybe I don't understand what you need, but why roll your own from > >source when vim is part of the distribution and the RPMs are there? > >Yum will install vim and all the needed requisites (if any) for you. > > > >Is there something special you are doing to vim that requires it be > >other than the distributed version?? > > > > > > > > > Well there are a couple of fixes to vim in fc4 that I want on my fc2 > system so I cannot really install the rpms, at least I don't think so > (gcc4 versus gcc3). The fixes to vim are a better integration with tag > files that will display all definitions for a tag so you can choose > which one vim goes to. The fc2 vim just goes to the first one so I'm > running across several bad tag references. Naively, I thought I could > find the srpms and then build everything needed. > That makes sense now. You did not say what version of FC you were using, and mine with FC4 has everything I use, but then I don't stretch most things to the limit either. I certainly see where going from FC2 to FC4 versions would give added features.
