please be patient with me, I'm new to mac and only moderately proficient in 
Linux/Unix systems (hopefully that does not last too long)

I tried installing macvim from Homebrew, but found that it ignored my rvm 
selected ruby and forced itself to compile against the system 1.8.7 ruby.  
Since Homebrew is a package manage and it selects parts of the config for me, I 
decided to compile macvim from the source, which i cloned off of github.

The configure I ran was 
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp --enable-pythoninterp 
--enable-python3interp --enable-perlinterp --enable-cscope --enable-multibyte 
--enable-tclinterp --enable-luainterp --enable-mzschemeinterp --enable-tclinterp

and then I ran make, which SUCCEEDED and then make install with no arguments

When I run $ open /Applications/MacVim.app/ I get the message:
The application cannot be opened because its executable is missing.

When I try to execute Applications/bin/Vim I get the following error
E254: Cannot allocate color Red
E254: Cannot allocate color White
E254: Cannot allocate color Blue
E254: Cannot allocate color Red
E254: Cannot allocate color Grey
E254: Cannot allocate color Blue
E254: Cannot allocate color Brown
E254: Cannot allocate color Brown
E254: Cannot allocate color SeaGreen
E254: Cannot allocate color SeaGreen
E254: Cannot allocate color Yellow
E254: Cannot allocate color Red
E254: Cannot allocate color Blue
E254: Cannot allocate color Magenta
E254: Cannot allocate color DarkCyan
E254: Cannot allocate color Black
E254: Cannot allocate color LightMagenta
E254: Cannot allocate color Grey
E254: Cannot allocate color Blue
E254: Cannot allocate color Magenta
E254: Cannot allocate color Red
E254: Cannot allocate color Yellow
E254: Cannot allocate color Black
E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey
E254: Cannot allocate color DarkBlue
E254: Cannot allocate color Grey
E254: Cannot allocate color DarkBlue
E254: Cannot allocate color Grey
E254: Cannot allocate color DarkBlue
E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey
E254: Cannot allocate color LightBlue
E254: Cannot allocate color LightMagenta
E254: Cannot allocate color Blue
E254: Cannot allocate color LightCyan
E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey
E254: Cannot allocate color Grey90
E254: Cannot allocate color Grey90
E254: Cannot allocate color LightRed
E254: Cannot allocate color DarkGrey
E254: Cannot allocate color LightGrey
E254: Cannot allocate color Cyan
Error detected while processing /Users/<username omitted>/.vimrc:
line    4:
E484: Can't open file /Applications/bin/vim/runtime/syntax/syntax.vim

so I tried creating a vim folder in that dir to copy runtime over, but I got an 
error because apparently mac does not permit having a file and a folder named 
the same in a directory.

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