[Tfug] compiling vim with the :perldo option

[erich]

   If you get your kicks at compiling stuff, perhaps you should consider
Gentoo.
This application isn't installed on my machine, (That's what the "N"
indicator
means), but this gives you some idea at what's all involved in building
vim, and the version, (almost currently), available. Gentoo has a mechanism
for folks that want to build the "bleeding edge" version as well.


root at bcmp root # emerge -p vim

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-util/ctags-5.5.4-r2  
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/vim-core-6.4  
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/vim-6.4  
[ebuild  N    ] app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20051221  


amperry at provide.net wrote:

>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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