building vim using abs

dice · 2014-11-25 09:39:01

Hi,
I am trying to build vim using abs because I want it to be built with x-clipboard support.
I am not very familiar with PKGBUILDs. The vim PKGBUILD seems to build all the vim packages but I only want to build the 'vim' package itself.
When I set

pkgname=('vim')

I get an error during makepkg:

/home/arch/lukas/abs/vim/PKGBUILD: line 56: cd: /tmp/makepkg/vim/src/vim-runtime-build: No such file or directory

This directory does not exist because because I only want to build vim and not vim-runtime. I want to get vim runtime on the regular update way.

What am I missing here? Is it even possible to build only the vim package?

WorMzy · 2014-11-25 09:46:54

$ man makepkg
[...]
       --pkg <list>
           Only build listed packages from a split package. Multiple packages should be comma
           separated in the list. This option can be specified multiple times.
[...]

That said, it will still build everything, as there is only one build() function. You'll need to modify the build function if you really wan to avoid compiling everything. Alternatively, there's vim-x11 in the AUR if you really want to avoid installing gvim and compiling all the vim packages.

jasonwryan · 2014-11-25 16:15:55

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42841

See also: https://bitbucket.org/jasonwryan/shiv/s … m/PKGBUILD

anatolik · 2014-11-25 17:25:51

dice wrote:

I want to get vim runtime on the regular update way.

What WorMzy said. You need to use --pkg. It still builds all packages but calls _install() only for the packages you specified.

dice · 2014-11-25 21:55:57

anatolik wrote:

What WorMzy said. You need to use --pkg. It still builds all packages but calls _install() only for the packages you specified.

Yes, but using specifying the package using this option leads to exactly the same error with the PKGBUILD from abs.

Actually this doesn't really matter anymore. I just installed gvim and everything is fine.
I was just curious if I did something wrong.

But I noticed that after building the whole thing, it is possible to then build just the vim package. Which is obviously unnecessary as one has built it already.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-11-25 09:39:01

building vim using abs

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Re: building vim using abs

#3 2014-11-25 16:15:55

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