Installing a NeoBundle-Compatible vim on CentOS 5

Overview

While trying to build vim from source on CentOS 5,
an error occurred when running .configure:

no terminal library found
checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
      You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
      Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.

It’s complaining that the terminal library is missing.

For reference, here is the flow I used to download and build vim from source.

$ wget ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2
$ tar xvf vim-7.4.tar.bz2
$ cd vim74
$ ./configure --enable-multibyte --with-features=huge --disable-selinux --prefix='/usr/local/vim-7.4'
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/vim-7.4/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim

• Install ncurses-devel and run again

$ sudo yum install -y ncurses-devel

It went through (;_)

The vim installed via yum was a version that doesn’t support NeoBundle,
so I chose to build it from source.

Let me know if there’s a decent rpm out there!