How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

Bill Campbell freebsd at celestial.com
Fri May 11 05:50:20 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 10, 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote:
>Hi,
>
>As I'd mentioned before, I upgraded my vim installation using
>portupgrade.  However, when the upgrade completed, I could no longer
>start vim in the GUI.  I get an error saying that GUI stuff wasn't
>compiled.  I asked here at that time and was told to check up with the
>port maintainer.  I've done this, but to no avail.  I've heard nary a
>peep from the maintainer.

The way I run xterm as a GUI is:

	xterm -e vim

Bill
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