Hi Tony, Thanks very much for your reply.
Once I uninstalled out of /usr/local and compiled and installed everything into /usr, 'vim - g' worked! I now have to get my fonts configured correctly, but I've definitely made progress. Thanks again for the assistance! Best regards, -- Mun On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 02:56 AM PDT, Tony Mechelynck wrote: TM> TM> TM> TM> On 05/04/09 08:24, Mun Johl wrote: TM> > Hi Tony, TM> > TM> > Thanks very much for your reply. TM> > Please see my comments below. TM> > TM> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 05:23 PM PDT, Tony Mechelynck wrote: TM> [...] TM> > TM> Oh, and BTW: you do have the gtk2-devel package installed, and with the TM> > TM> same version as your gtk2 package, don't you? (I have them both at TM> > TM> 2.14.4-8.6.2, part of which could be a SuSE sub-versioning system.) TM> > TM> Without them I don't expect that configure would enable the GTK2 GUI TM> > TM> anyway. Try: TM> > TM> TM> > TM> rpm -qa|grep gtk2-[d2] TM> > TM> > That is a good question. My system originally only came with the TM> > following gtk2 package: gtk2-2.10.4-20.el5 . Because I did not have the TM> > gtk2-devel package, vim's configure script was not enabling the gui. TM> > Therefore, I searched for what I could find regarding gtk2 on the RedHat TM> > site. TM> > TM> > It turns out that the v2.10.4 release was the most recent package they TM> > had for both gtk2 and gtk2-devel; and that release was dated Dec 2007 . TM> > Because that release was old, I downloaded the gtk2 v2.16 sources and TM> > compiled everything up and installed them. My assumption was that the TM> > sources (along with the list of dependencies) would of included TM> > everything that comes with the gtk2 and gtk2-devel packages. But I TM> > certainly don't know that for a fact. TM> > TM> > I'll try and see what comes in the gtk2 and gtk2-devel packages and TM> > ensure I have everything I need. I may also try uninstalling the old TM> > gtk2 package to ensure there isn't some incompatibility on my system. TM> > TM> > Thanks again, Tony. TM> > TM> TM> Vim has been using GTK2 for quite some time, so even a year-and-a half TM> old version ought to work with it. If I were you, I would try to compile TM> Vim with those gtk2 and gtk2-devel packages from the RedHat site, but TM> also check my installed version of the RedHat OS against the latest TM> RedHat and Fedora versions offered for download, then either upgrade if TM> I were out of date, or if I weren't, complain on bugzilla.redhat.com (or TM> something; I didn't check the URL) about outdated GTK2 packages. TM> TM> TM> Best regards, TM> Tony. TM> -- TM> An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away. TM> TM> TM> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
