2009/11/23 Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <[email protected]>: > > Saluton Mr.SpOOn :) > > Mr.SpOOn <[email protected]> skribis: >> Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: > ;) Well, then you can use a "huge" version and fine tune the > configuration. It is not the easiest thing on Earth, though. And > remember: some features depend on other features, so you may not be able > to remove certain things you are not going to use if you use others. > > At first I did just like you, trying to fine tune the precise config I > wanted for building Vim, but later I noticed that using a "huge" version > without GUI, with Perl and Python was exactly what I wanted and required > less work. This means I have some feature I don't want, but removing it > would be more complex and I won't be gaining anything, really.
I think the huge version will be just fine. I also use gvim sometimes, so it's ok. >> Well, there are archives to download them easier, so that would not be >> a problem. The problem would be to patch them all. I shall write a >> script for that. I was just wondering if I had to download all of >> them. > > rsync will download only new patches (see Tony's instructions for that), > and after that I recommend that you ALWAYS build from pristine sources. > That is, extract the tarballs and apply ALL patches again. This is fast > and saves you from having to track which patches you already applied. > And if you, like me, like to build different versions at times, tweaking > the sources, etc. it's better to build from scratch, just in case. It was easier than I thought. The archives contain concatenated patch files while I thought they were archives of hundres of files. Thanks for your help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
