Debian / Ubuntu build guide

[kajukenbo]

I will post this here in case it is of use to someone.
Feel free to move or purge it as you think appropriate ~

cd $HOME/Downloads

curl -LO https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/releases/latest
va=$( grep "Release OpenVi [0-9]" latest | sed '1!d' | awk '{ if ($3 ~ "[0-9]") { print $3 } else { next }}' )
# https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/releases/tag/7.3.22
vb=$( awk -F';' '/\/releases\/tag/ { print }' latest | sed 's/.*http/http/; s/\&quot.*//' |  grep -v -i assets | grep ^http | sort -u )

echo $va
echo $vb

# https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/archive/refs/tags/7.3.22.tar.gz
curl -LO https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/archive/refs/tags/"$va".tar.gz

tar -zxvf "$va".tar.gz
cd OpenVi-"$va"
ls -l

sudo apt -y install libncurses-dev gcc make
sudo env PREFIX=/usr/local make install

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/local/bin/ovi 0
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/local/bin/ovi 0
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/view view /usr/local/bin/oview 0
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ex ex /usr/local/bin/oex 0

sudo update-alternatives --set vi /usr/local/bin/ovi
sudo update-alternatives --set editor /usr/local/bin/ovi
sudo update-alternatives --set view /usr/local/bin/oview
sudo update-alternatives --set ex /usr/local/bin/oex

#sudo apt -y remove nvi nvi-doc vim* nano*

[kajukenbo]

Thank you very much for keeping a proper vi implementation current and available!

[kajukenbo]

Example Debian-type compile for OpenVi 7.7.32
This version needed a few compiler directives on my GNU/Linux systems (Devuan "Excalibur", specifically).

#!/bin/bash

mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads
cd $HOME/Downloads
rm -rf $HOME/Downloads/OpenVi-7.7.32

[ -f [7.7.32.tar.gz](http://7.7.32.tar.gz/) ] || curl -LO https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/archive/refs/tags/7.7.32.tar.gz

tar xzf [7.7.32.tar.gz](http://7.7.32.tar.gz/)
cd $HOME/Downloads/OpenVi-7.7.32
cp -p -n GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.original
sed 's|^LTOC         = -flto.*|LTOC         = -flto=auto|' GNUmakefile.original > GNUmakefile
pwd
mkdir -m 775 -p bin/
ls -l
touch bin/xinstall
sync

env CC=gcc OPTLEVEL=-Os LGC=1 LTO=1 CFLAGS=-I/usr/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib CURSESLIB=-lncurses gmake sstrip                         
sudo env PREFIX=/usr/local make install

pwd

echo ":version" | oex -s
ls -lh /usr/local/bin/o*

[johnsonjh]

I just tested a Devuan Excalibur rootfs for the build, and didn’t need to do anything special for it to build nor did it require manually adding compiler directives, just:

# apt install build-essential libtool pkg-config make git libncurses-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi.git && cd OpenVi
$ make LTO=1 LGC=1

There was a (harmless) warning about LTO invocation. Unfortunately, not all compilers that we support with LTO offer -flto=auto, so if the warning bothers you, just build with:

$ make LTO=1 LGC=1 LTOC=-flto=auto

There should be no need to patch anything or pass flags manually. Tested with "Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur)" updated via apt update && apt upgrade as of today.

This was with master but that has no functional modifications from 7.7.32.

What problems did you encounter?