That's quite good, I was using a shell script which I glommed together using a macro in a text editor.
But leave it to the folks in here to come up with quicker, better, smarter ways. Seems like half the questions that come up are answered in three different ways, each responder shortening it up by fifty percent. Well, you shortened mine by ninety-nine percent, but, half of one, six dozen of the other! Cheers, Anne -----Original Message----- From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:36 PM To: Anne Wall Cc: Vim Mailing List Subject: Re: Cannot compile vim 7.0 Anne Wall wrote: > Oh mah gah. That's the best. > > You've really encapsulated the whole deal here. Thank you, because > that's pretty excellent. Thanks for the compliment; I used to be a teacher. > > I already knew that there were about 132 patches for vim, and I > optimistically applied every single one before trying the install > the first time. That in itself was a bit silly, because I didn't > realize that some of them are platform-specific. Oy. > > I'm going to give it a shot and get the other packages. I also apply every single patch as it gets published, and I have no problem with that (as I have downloaded the full sources, not only the "unix" and "lang" archives but also "extra"). Any modules that I don't need (such as Windows- or Mac-specific modules when compiling on Linux) are simply not compiled; and the binary which I just compiled neatly displays "Included patches: 1-144" in the output of its ":version" command. Since (IIUC) the Unix shell expands the wildcards in lexicographic order, after downloading all patches into (let's say) ~/.build/vim/vim70/patches/, you can apply them (for your first v7 compile) by doing cd ~/.build/vim/vim70 cat patches/7.0.??? | patch -p0 For incremental patching (when a few new patches are published, and you've already applied the previous ones) it's usually easier to apply them one-by-one: e.g., the next one will be patch -p0 <patches/7.0.145 unless of course Vim 7.1 comes out first ;-). Best regards, Tony.
