Compile Vim and MC in Solaris 10 Sparc

If you don't have root privileges you can't install binary package vim and mc provided by sunfreeware.com etc. But if you have compiler (gcc) installed in your system, compiling is the only choice.

Here is my system:
> uname -a
SunOS myserver 5.10 Generic_144488-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

> gcc -v

Reading specs from /usr/sfw/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.3/specs

Configured with: /sfw10/builds/build/sfw10-patch/usr/src/cmd/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/configure --prefix=/usr/sfw --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --without-gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared

Thread model: posix

gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)

> mkdir -p $HOME/local

0. Compiling Gnu Coreutils
> wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.19.tar.xz
> xz -d coreutils-8.19.tar.xz
> tar -xf coreutils-8.19.tar
> cd coreutils-8.19
> .configure --prefix=$HOME/local
> make
> make install

Add following lines in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile:
export LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:"

alias ls='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first'

Make sure $HOME/local/bin is in first order in PATH variable.

1. Compiling Vim
> wget ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2
> bzip -d vim-7.3.tar.bz2
> tar -xf vim-7.3.tar
> cd vim73/src
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
> make
> make install
> vi .vimrc
set term=xtermc
syntax on
colorscheme elflord
set number
set nocompatible
set expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4
set backspace=2 " make backspace work like most other apps
set backspace=indent,eol,start

Add $HOME/local/bin to PATH variable.

2. Compiling MC
> wget http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz
> gzip -d mc-4.6.1.tar.gz
> tar -xf mc-4.6.1.tar
> cd mc-4.6.1
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
> make
> make install
> vi .bash_profile
alias mc='/usr/bin/env TERM=xtermc mc'
alias mcedit='/usr/bin/env TERM=xtermc mcedit'

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