Question

I compiled vim 7.3 with

./configure --enable-gnome-check --enable-cscope --with-features=huge --enable-perlinterp \
--enable- ythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-multibyte --enable-python3interp \
--with-compiledby=[e-mail]

on Ubuntu 11.04 in order to have proper indentation and syntax highlighting. However, python, perl and ruby don’t seem to be linking correctly as shown below:

Compilation: 
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -Wall -g -O2  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1      

Linking: 
gcc   -Wl,--as-needed -o vim       -lm -lncurses -lselinux   -lacl -lgpm

Am I missing some critical points here? Following is output from vim –version on other machine with vim installed properly with python and perl support.

Compilation: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-march=x86-64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/CORE  -I/usr/include/python2.6
-pthread   

Linking: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc   -rdynamic  -Wl,-O1 -L/usr/local/lib
-o vim       -lcurses -lacl -rdynamic
-L/usr/local/lib64 /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/CORE -lperl -lutil -lc -L/usr/lib/python2.6/config -lpython2.6 -lutil -lm -Xlinker -export-dynamic

Thanks! Please let me know if I can provide any other information to elaborate on the issue.

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Following is output from make that belongs to link.sh

link.sh: Using auto/link.sed file to omit a few libraries

gcc -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu    -L. -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic  -L/usr/local/lib         -o vim objects/buffer.o objects/blowfish.o objects/charset.o objects/diff.o objects/digraph.o objects/edit.o objects/eval.o objects/ex_cmds.o objects/ex_cmds2.o objects/ex_docmd.o objects/ex_eval.o objects/ex_getln.o objects/fileio.o objects/fold.o objects/getchar.o objects/hardcopy.o objects/hashtab.o  objects/if_cscope.o objects/if_xcmdsrv.o objects/main.o objects/mark.o objects/memfile.o objects/memline.o objects/menu.o objects/message.o objects/misc1.o objects/misc2.o objects/move.o objects/mbyte.o objects/normal.o objects/ops.o objects/option.o objects/os_unix.o objects/pathdef.o objects/popupmnu.o objects/quickfix.o objects/regexp.o objects/screen.o objects/search.o objects/sha256.o objects/spell.o objects/syntax.o  objects/tag.o objects/term.o objects/ui.o objects/undo.o objects/window.o objects/gui.o objects/gui_gtk.o objects/gui_gtk_x11.o objects/pty.o objects/gui_gtk_f.o objects/gui_beval.o    objects/if_python.o objects/py_config.o   objects/if_ruby.o   objects/netbeans.o  objects/version.o   -pthread -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0   -lXt -lncurses -liconv     -L/usr/local/lib/python2.7/config -lpython2.7 -lutil -Xlinker -export-dynamic   -lruby1.8 -lrt -lm
link.sh: Linked fine with a few libraries omitted

Answer 1

on Ubuntu 11.04 in order to have proper indentation and syntax highlighting

You don’t need to link Python, Ruby, or Perl to get syntax highlighting or indentation in Vim.
They’re only used to run Python/Ruby/Perl code inside Vim.