Recompiling the vim port for gui capability
Andrew Falanga
af300wsm at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 03:39:17 UTC 2007
Hi,
I recently updated some of my ports (due to the fact that I now have a high
speed connection to the Internet at home). One of the ports I updated was
vim. I used portupgrade -r <vim_port_name> and let it do its thing. All
went well, but now gvim no longer exists. When I was try to execute it, I
get, "E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time". I've built vim
at work simply from the source code from vim.org and I know how to build for
GUI support. However, I'm not very familiar with the BSD make or the ports
making process and couldn't find a clean way of defining, or in this case
preventing the definition of,
.if defined(NO_GUI)
WITHOUT_X11= yes
.endif
I took this from /usr/ports/editors/vim/Makefile. How do I manipulate the
ports build process to recompile vim with GUI support? I would rather use
vim/gvim than any other editor and without GUI support, it's quite lame.
By the way, after reading the response to my post about how to get
portupgrade back, I went to look through the /usr/ports/UPGRADING file for
vim notes. However, the only thing I found concerning vim was something to
with vim-part, or something similar to that, with respect to the KDE
distribution. There was nothing about the actual VIM port. Oh, nearly
forgot, before this, I had vim 6.x installed from ports. I did have the GUI
version before hand.
Thanks,
Andy
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