Compiling vim with statically linked python support in a non-standard path configuration

Question

I'm currently trying to compile vim on a Fedora 20 machine with a particularly exotic setup:

No root access
python2 and python3 manually compiled and installed in ~/.local correctly working (after exporting the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
zsh as shell
gcc version 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7) (GCC)

If I configure the compiling process as:

./configure --with-features=huge --enable-pythoninterp --enable-python3interp --prefix=$HOME/.local

and then make && make install, vim is correctly compiled with +python/dyn +python3/dyn.

vim --version | grep python +cryptv +linebreak +python/dyn +vreplace +cscope +lispindent +python3/dyn +wildignore

but, inside vim, :echo has('python') returns a 0 (and the MatchTagAlways complains about that in facts...).

So I told to myself, let's try to force the statically linked installation:

export LDFLAGS=-static ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-pythoninterp --enable-python3interp --prefix=$HOME/.local

ends just a little bit after the configuring command:

configure: creating cache auto/config.cache checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/students/rm_16_17/dibattista/build/vim/src': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details

Here the full configure.log. The relevant line should be:

configure:3027: gcc -static conftest.c >&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

that I cannot really decrypt. It seems that gcc does not has the -static flag. Is that the issue?

Is there a particular reason you want to compile vim instead of getting it from the repo? — Eugene Sh.
– Eugene Sh., Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 18:24
@EugeneSh. Yep. The vim installed in the system has not +clipboard feature. (And I have not root access) — rdbisme
– rdbisme, Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 18:25
Take a look here. It might be good enough for you... Or.. you are saying there is no vim on this system at all, and you can't install it from the repo? — Eugene Sh.
– Eugene Sh., Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 18:27
@EugeneSh. Thanks. The problem is that I have no root access. — rdbisme
– rdbisme, Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 18:28

rdbisme · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-09 08:11:26Z

At the end what I was missing was a flag when compiling Python to compile it as a shared library --enable-shared.

As a reminder: always read all the INSTALL instructions :)

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