OK, for the next release I'm just going to set things up not to install the vim files by default, but so that you can easily install them by hand (or from packaging scripts) and specify the location, e.g: make -C vim vimdir=/usr/share/vim/vimfiles If you don't specify vimdir they'll just go in PREFIX/share/vim. Hopefully I'll get 1.1.9 out in the next 24 hours. Cheers, Olly