configure editors/vim

[Martin Tournoij]

On Thu 13 Sep 2007 14:09, Gergely S�nta wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm a developer using gvim with it's tagging through exctags (somehow ctags never worked for me). As vim 
> port have no configuration options, it can't be configured easyly through 'make config'. I'm too lazy for 
> digging Makefile for options every time I compile new version of vim, I added configuration options to 
> Makefile.
> I'm new to FreeBSD, also to it's Ports, so maybe I don't see the reasons, these options aren't in the 
> Makefile, but maybe they should be there. Anyway, I attach my change, maybe it will be acceptable to have 
> it's way to ports. And if not, maybe it will help for someone else too :)
> 
> EdE
> 
> 
> [root at ed /usr/ports/editors/vim]# diff -u Makefile.orig Makefile
> --- Makefile.orig       Thu Sep 13 13:52:20 2007
> +++ Makefile    Thu Sep 13 13:52:27 2007
> @@ -29,6 +29,17 @@
> 
>  SLAVEDIRS=     editors/vim-lite
> 
> +OPTIONS=       PERL "Enable Perl interpreter" off \
> +               PYTHON "Enable Python interpreter" off \
> +               RUBY "Enable Ruby interpreter" off \
> +               CSCOPE "Enable cscope" off \
> +               EXUBERANT_CTAGS "Use exctags instead of ctags" off \
> +               ATHENA "Athena GUI" off \
> +               GTK2 "GTK2 GUI" off \
> +               GNOME "Gnome1 GUI" off \
> +               MOTIF "Motif GUI" off \
> +               XTERM_SAVE "" off
> +
>  .if defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING) && !defined(LITE)
>  #WITH_TCL=     yes
>  WITH_PERL=     yes

You should send these kind of questions/suggestions to the port
maintainer, not to the ports mailing list.
I've cc-ed the port maintainer in this email.

Some general tips on port knobs:

You can use:
grep WITH Makefile
To get a list of knobs, which is easier than viewing the Makfile with
less.

You can use /etc/make.conf to specify default port knobs, here's my
vim configuration in /etc/make.conf:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/editors/vim}
WITHOUT_X11=    yes
NO_GUI=         yes
.if exists(/phong)
WITH_PERL=      yes
WITH_PYTHON=    yes
WITH_CSCOPE=    yes
.elif exists(/glitch)
WITHOUT_PERL=   yes
.endif
.endif

The files /glitch and /phong are used to identify which machine we're
running on, and adjust the knobs accordingly.

Regards,
Martin Tournoij