On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 09:07:59AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Running bullseye with fzf package 0.24.3-1+b6. > > Newer versions of fzf (> .27.) have some advanced abilities I'd like to use > but newer versions are not available in backports (at least not that I could > tell) > > I'm thinking of building fzf manually per the instructions here: > https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/BUILD.md > > Wondering if there is any snags I might hit or if this is just a very bad > idea in general. Thank you. >
Their build tooling seems very sparse. In particular, it does not support DESTDIR or PREFIX variables. However, that might be OK in this case, as it appears to only produce and install a single artifact: a binary called fzf. If I were in your position, I would run 'make' and then manually place the fzf program in a location where the shell's PATH variable setting will allow the fzf program to be found. Likely either /usr/local/bin (if you want it to be available to everyone on the system) or ~/bin (if you only want to make it available to your own login without affecting others who might be using the system-provided binary). Either way, the simplicity of the tool (in terms of it being a single binary artifact that is deployed) makes it unlikely that you would encounter any issues in doing this. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
