vim-core emerge has an awk error

zojas · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:01 am Post subject: vim-core emerge has an awk error

trying to emerge vim-core-6.3-r2 (then vim, then gvim). added the ppc-macos keyword to the ebuild. when emerging I get this error at the configure stage:

danie · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 5 Location: los angeles

If your end goal is gvim then you will have your work cut out for you, since there are a number of unkeyworded packages that need to be compiled to get to gvim. If you just need vim, I think that OS X 10.3 comes with vim 6.2, which you might be able to use with gvim. In order to see everything that leads to gvim, you can emerge -pv gvim.

Also since your edits will disappear with the next sync, it is best not to directly edit the ebuild; if you are interested in compiling a specific version of a package then you should add it to /etc/portage/package.unmask:
echo "=app-editors/vim-core-6.3-r2" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask.

zojas · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 5:01 am Post subject:

thanks for the tip about the package.unmask file.

I forgot to mention that I like gvim with the athena widgets rather than gtk, so there aren't really any dependencies to worry about. I want gvim since I use X11 in full screen mode in OS X.