vim7 from source

I found a bug in vim6.4 (my comment block was too big and the line after the comment block was not left-justified) and wanted to see if vim7 had a fix.

Here are the steps I used to build/install my vim.

1. get dependencies

    $ apt-get build-dep vim
   

2. get vim7

    $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/vim checkout vim7
   

   or

    $ svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/vim7
   

3. configure

    $ CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -g -Wall" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
      --mandir='${prefix}'/share/man --with-compiledby="bart@jukie.net" --enable-gpm --enable-cscope \
      --with-features=big --enable-multibyte --with-x --enable-xim --enable-fontset --enable-gui=gnome2 \
      --enable-perlinterp --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-tclinterp --program-suffix=7
   

   … mostly from debian’s vim 6.4 package except for using my -march and -mtune and --prefix. Use -mcpu= instead of -mtune= for gcc-3.x.

4. build

    $ make
   

5. install

    $ sudo make install
   

6. fix install

   …for some reason --program-suffix didn’t work.

    $ sudo ln -s vim /usr/local/bin/vim7
   

It took about 5 minutes to build on my laptop. That’s about the same amount of time it takes emacs to start up … :)