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.

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