Re: [vile] Vile in termux

[Jordan Henderson]

I mistyped above.  It's 9.8.

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 05:12:06PM -0400, Jordan Henderson wrote:
>> I was able to configure and make a vile9.6 in the termux Android environment.
>
> hmm - 9.8s is current...
>
> (9.6 is ten years old)
>
>> It's an oddball environment, but it's mostly linux.  termux.com for
>> more information.  It allows you to run openssh client and server on
>> your unrooted Android device, but there are many packages available.
>>
>> The biggest issue is that you can't use /bin/sh and there are some
>> #!/bin/sh scripts around.   It was actually surprisingly easy to fix
>> and just do a ./configure;make.
>>
>> By default, there's no c compiler or make installed but these two
>> commands fix that:
>>
>> $ packages install clang
>> $ packages install make
>>
>> Not sure if there's interest in supporting this environment in a
>> standard source release, but if there is, I think the instructions
>> above get you there.
>
> thanks :-)
>
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