ARM的vim交叉编译

Question

I'm using arm-linux-gnueabi and trying to compile vim for my device. After some time searching and studying I'm succeeded, but when I started it from device I see this:

# /usr/tmp/vim/bin/vim
~
...
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~VIM - Vi IMprovedversion 7.4.873by Bram Moolenaar et al.Vim is open source and freely distributableSponsor Vim development!type  :help sponsor<Enter>    for informationtype  :q<Enter>to exittype  :help<Enter>  or  <F1>  for on-line helptype  :help version7<Enter>   for version infoRunning in Vi compatible modetype  :set nocp<Enter>for Vim defaultstype  :help cp-default<Enter> for info on this

cursor does not move at any direction and text I type goes in single last line. Vim commands works fine.

If it matters, during compilation I compiled ncurses library and target it with flags:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="<my_path>/lib/"
export CPPFLAGS="-L<my_path>/ncurses"
export LDFLAGS="-L<my_path>/lib"

but without --with-tlib=ncurses i had an error:

checking for tgetent in -lncurses... yes
ncurses library is not usable

I used installation manual for cross-compiling vim sources, according to witch I set some variables:

export vim_cv_terminfo=yes
export vim_cv_tty_group=world
export vim_cv_getcwd_broken=no
export vim_cv_stat_ignores_slash=yes
export vim_cv_memmove_handles_overlap=yes
export vim_cv_bcopy_handles_overlap=yes
export vim_cv_memcpy_handles_overlap=yes
export vim_cv_tgetent=non-zero

I'm not really sure about them...

I did some more research, but did not find any usable information. This issue maybe relative to wrong term detection or ncurses compilation...

Maybe there is some flag I must set during compilation? Has anyone seen this before?

Answer 1

Figure this out.

It's seems that vim needed terminfo database (ncurses lib creates it) to work properly.

I added part of the database to the device with terminals I use (vt100 and xterm) and it works fine now. To find out location for terminfo database, I used strace command:

strace vim
...
stat64("/root/.terminfo", 0xc7a4c8)     = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/opt/share/terminfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
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