gvim install... redhat 8. Advise?

[Tony Hammitt]

It looks like there is a missing or incorrect detection of whether to 
redeclare the memmove etc. prototypes in the auto/osdef.h file.  Is 
there some symbol it's looking for that's misspelled or something? 
 Looks like the only symbol it can look for to see if the prototypes 
have been declared is _STRING_H or _STDLIB_H.  You can either fix the 
bad #ifndef _STRING_H and whatever else is screwed up, or just comment 
out lines 58, 76, 79 and 124 of the auto/osdef.h file, then try to 
compile again.

If any of this doesn't make any sense, feel free to get back to me off-list.

Regards,

        Tony

Matt Graham wrote:

>Hey there.  I'm trying to install vim (wanting to use gvim) in RH8.  I'm
>all updated and running smoothe.  When I run the makefile though, I keep
>getting these errors. (see snip below.)
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>Has anyone run into this?  Vim is cool enough, but I really like GVim.
>
>Thanks, 
>Matt
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>[root at localhost src]# make install
>gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK 
>-I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include
>-I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include
> -g -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include       -o objects/buffer.o buffer.c
>cc1: warning: changing search order for system directory
>"/usr/local/include"
>cc1: warning:   as it has already been specified as a non-system
>directory
>In file included from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Intrinsic.h:64,
>                 from gui.h:34,
>                 from structs.h:73,
>                 from vim.h:1327,
>                 from buffer.c:29:
>/usr/include/string.h:43: conflicting types for `memmove'
>auto/osdef.h:58: previous declaration of `memmove'
>/usr/include/string.h:288: conflicting types for `strcasecmp'
>auto/osdef.h:76: previous declaration of `strcasecmp'
>/usr/include/string.h:292: conflicting types for `strncasecmp'
>auto/osdef.h:79: previous declaration of `strncasecmp'
>In file included from /usr/include/bits/string2.h:1211,
>                 from /usr/include/string.h:375,
>                 from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Intrinsic.h:64,
>                 from gui.h:34,
>                 from structs.h:73,
>                 from vim.h:1327,
>                 from buffer.c:29:
>/usr/include/stdlib.h:554: conflicting types for `malloc'
>auto/osdef.h:124: previous declaration of `malloc'
>make: *** [objects/buffer.o] Error 1
>[root at localhost src]#
>[root at localhost src]#
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