[Tfug] compiling vim with the :perldo option

[Robert Hunter]

Looking at ./configure --help, it looks like this may ( or may not :-) )
help:

./configure --enable-perlinterp [other options if necessary]
make

> Folks,
>
> Since vim 7.0 just came out, I thought I'd download and
> compile it and give it a test run. An earlier version
> (5.something) from an old Red Hat distro had the :perldo
> option compiled in, which (among other things) allowed me
> to use Perl's syntax for regex substitutions instead of the
> vim's backslash-heavy way.
>
> But, Makefile neophyte that I am, I can't figure out how to
> get the darn thing to compile in. I figured that, by
> uncommenting the line:
>
> CONF_OPT_PERL = --enable-perlinterp
>
> --I could get what I was looking for. (I also uncommented
> the "--with-features=normal" line.)
>
> But that doesn't seem to do what I want it to.
>
> The :help facility provided this utterly uninformative
> message: "To compile Vim with Perl interface, you need Perl
> 5.004 (or later)." But it doesn't say *how* to compile it.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this?
>
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-- 
Rob