Recompiling the vim port for gui capability

[Garrett Cooper]

Andrew Falanga wrote:
> 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

Andy,
    If you use the editors/vim port and not editors/vim-lite, this 
should be enabled by default. If not, then you should talk to the port 
maintainer.
-Garrett