libselinx-devel: Needed for vim?

[Bill Rees]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 19:44 -0800, Bill Rees wrote:
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>>Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 18:33 -0800, Bill Rees wrote:
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>>>>   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?
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>>>>Bill Rees
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>>>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.
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>>>Is there something special you are doing to vim that requires it be
>>>other than the distributed version??
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>>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.
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>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.
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>I certainly see where going from FC2 to FC4 versions would give added
>features.
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Sorry I didn't say that in the first place, thanks for staying with me.

bill