Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:48:18 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recompiling the vim port for gui capability Message-ID: <4621A082.7060808@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <340a29540704142039i789b97d6md2c4113b53acdba6@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540704142039i789b97d6md2c4113b53acdba6@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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