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Error when installing Vim

Vi and Vim Asked on November 5, 2021

I cloned Vim from the GitHub repo and then run

./configure --with-features=huge 
            --enable-multibyte 
            --enable-rubyinterp=yes 
            --enable-python3interp=yes 
            --with-python3-config-dir=$(python3-config --configdir) 
            --enable-perlinterp=yes 
            --enable-luainterp=yes 
            --enable-cscope 
            --prefix=/usr/local

which seems all fine, but then make fails:

$ make -j8
Starting make in the src directory.
If there are problems, cd to the src directory and run make there
cd src && make first
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/enrico/vim/src'
gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_ATHENA     -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1        version.c -o objects/version.o
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enrico/vim/src/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'first'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/enrico/vim/src/po'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/enrico/vim/src/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'converted'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/enrico/vim/src/po'
link.sh: $LINK_AS_NEEDED set to 'yes': invoking linker directly.
  gcc   -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/CORE   -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,--as-needed     -o vim objects/arabic.o objects/arglist.o objects/autocmd.o objects/beval.o objects/buffer.o objects/change.o objects/blob.o objects/blowfish.o objects/cindent.o objects/clientserver.o objects/clipboard.o objects/cmdexpand.o objects/cmdhist.o objects/crypt.o objects/crypt_zip.o objects/debugger.o objects/dict.o objects/diff.o objects/digraph.o objects/drawline.o objects/drawscreen.o objects/edit.o objects/eval.o objects/evalbuffer.o objects/evalfunc.o objects/evalvars.o objects/evalwindow.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/filepath.o objects/findfile.o objects/fold.o objects/getchar.o objects/gui_xim.o objects/hardcopy.o objects/hashtab.o objects/highlight.o objects/if_cscope.o objects/if_xcmdsrv.o objects/indent.o objects/insexpand.o objects/list.o objects/map.o objects/mark.o objects/match.o objects/mbyte.o objects/memline.o objects/menu.o objects/misc1.o objects/misc2.o objects/mouse.o objects/move.o objects/normal.o objects/ops.o objects/option.o objects/optionstr.o objects/os_unix.o objects/pathdef.o objects/popupmenu.o objects/popupwin.o objects/profiler.o objects/pty.o objects/quickfix.o objects/regexp.o objects/register.o objects/screen.o objects/scriptfile.o objects/search.o objects/session.o objects/sha256.o objects/sign.o objects/sound.o objects/spell.o objects/spellfile.o objects/spellsuggest.o objects/syntax.o objects/tag.o objects/term.o objects/terminal.o objects/testing.o objects/textformat.o objects/textobject.o objects/textprop.o objects/time.o objects/typval.o objects/ui.o objects/undo.o objects/usercmd.o objects/userfunc.o objects/version.o objects/vim9compile.o objects/vim9execute.o objects/vim9script.o objects/viminfo.o objects/window.o objects/bufwrite.o objects/gui.o objects/gui_athena.o objects/gui_x11.o objects/gui_beval.o objects/gui_at_sb.o objects/gui_at_fs.o objects/vterm_encoding.o objects/vterm_keyboard.o objects/vterm_mouse.o objects/vterm_parser.o objects/vterm_pen.o objects/vterm_screen.o objects/vterm_state.o objects/vterm_unicode.o objects/vterm_vterm.o   objects/if_perl.o objects/if_perlsfio.o  objects/if_python3.o    objects/netbeans.o objects/channel.o objects/xdiffi.o objects/xemit.o objects/xprepare.o objects/xutils.o objects/xhistogram.o objects/xpatience.o  objects/charset.o objects/json.o objects/main.o objects/memfile.o objects/message.o -lXaw -lXmu -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXpm -lXt -lX11 -lXdmcp -lSM -lICE -ldl  -lm -ltinfo -lelf   -lacl -lattr -lgpm -ldl   -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/CORE -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/CORE -lperl -lpthread -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc  -L/usr/lib/python3.8/config-3.8-x86_64-linux-gnu -lpython3.8      
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/vim.rEMMnl.ltrans46.ltrans.o: in function `os_openpty.lto_priv.0':
/home/enrico/vim/src/./Modules/posixmodule.c:6683: undefined reference to `openpty'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/vim.rEMMnl.ltrans46.ltrans.o: in function `os_forkpty.lto_priv.0':
/home/enrico/vim/src/./Modules/posixmodule.c:6784: undefined reference to `forkpty'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
link.sh: Linking failed
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2137: vim] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/enrico/vim/src'
make: *** [Makefile:29: first] Error 2

I have verified that removing the two options relative to python (--enable-python3interp=yes --with-python3-config-dir=$(python3-config --configdir)), make succeeds.

One Answer

As suggested by filbranden in the comments, I workarounded the issue by installing Vim from Arch package repository.

Not that I had not tried, but the package vim, as you can read here, does not come with the +clipboard feature, hence my attempt to build it from source.

It truns out that the package gvim does come with that feature, so installing it solved the issue. (Even if I'll never use gvim).

Answered by Enlico on November 5, 2021

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