Installing Vim 7.2 in QNX 6.5 using pkgsrc

QNX 6.5 self-hosted Neutrino host ships with vi but Vim 7.2 is a big imporovement over the default application. Below are the steps to install Vim 7.2 using pkgsrc.

• Download the bootstrap package
  http://archive.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc-archive/packages/QNX/i386/6.5.0_head_20110826/bootstrap.tar.gz
• Download Vim package and dependencies from the link below
  http://archive.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc-archive/packages/QNX/i386/6.5.0_head_20110826/All

  vim-share-7.2.446.tgz
  libiconv-1.14.tgz
  gettext-lib-0.18.1.1.tgz
  vim-7.2.446nb1.tgz
      

• Copy the files into /tmp using ftp, Momentics IDE, sftp, etc

  #: ls /tmp
  bootstrap.tar.gz
  vim-share-7.2.446.tgz
  libiconv-1.14.tgz
  gettext-lib-0.18.1.1.tgz
  vim-7.2.446nb1.tgz
  

• Install bootstrap package into the root folder

  #: tar -xvzf bootstrap.tar.gz -C /
  

• Add pkgsrc utilities into the path

  #: echo 'export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin' >> ~/.profile
  

• Modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local to update CS_LIBPATH system variable

  setconf CS_LIBPATH $(getconf CS_LIBPATH):/usr/pkg/lib
  

• Logout and then log back in
• Install dependencies and Vim

  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/libiconv-1.14.tgz
  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/gettext-lib-0.18.1.1.tgz
  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/vim-share-7.2.446.tgz
  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/vim-7.2.446nb1.tgz
  

• Fix backspace not deleting the character by adding the following to ~/.vimrc

  set backspace=indent,eol,start
  

• Run Vim!

  #: export TERM=ansi
  #: vim
  

Refs:
https://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.pkgsrc/wiki/BinaryPackages