CODEWITHSUNDEEP
vimf#syntastic
avriis
avriis

Reputation: 1681

What is meant with "Run make inside the vim directory"

This is a simple and perhaps forehead-slapping obvious question, but I still venture to ask it. It is part of a larger effort to troubleshoot a problem I have with vim-fsharp (see github repo here), where I continually get error messages like "Error detected while processing function fsharpbinding#python#OnBufWritePre" and a number of broken pipe errors. I have tried to uninstall and re-install the plugin a few times and with different methods, but none have worked so far, so I'm trying to reconstruct my install process in minutae.

I have also tried to ensure that I have the proper privileges and have run all possible commands with sudo.

My question is now regarding the third point in the installation instruction "Run make inside the vim directory." I'm not sure I understand what the vim directory in this context is. Is it ~/.vim or ~/.vim/bundle/vim-fsharp? And does this mean that I do the following (after having ensured that I have both pathogen and syntastic and run git clone https://github.com/fsharp/vim-fsharp.git): cd vim-fsharp && sudo make?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 93

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196809

Run make inside the vim directory.

make needs a Makefile. Since you are unlikely to have one in ~/.vim/ and there's one in ~/.vim/bundle/vim-fsharp you must logically do $ make in the latter:

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle/vim-fsharp
$ make

If I read the Makefile right you don't need sudo.

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions