BUG: Vim 6.3.82 Revision 2 does not build on intel Mac OS X

[edko@…]

VIm 6.3.82 Revision 2 does not build on intel Mac OS X. Build complains of an error in vim.h

[edko@…]

Messages from build process

[blb@…]

Assigning to maintainer.

[edko@…]

Noticed that the Vim version has been bumped up to 6.4.8.

Tried compiling vim but got the same error messages as before.

[bfi@…]

These seem to be preprocessor instructions that have to do with PPC detection -- I don't n´know if they concern pre-PPC processors or Intel processors. deleting the three lines in src/osmac.h line 97--99 helps.

If you also change the '-iarch' directives from the aqua patch in the Makefile, you get a nice, working (g)vim.app on an Intel Mac.

Cheers, Bernhard

PS: Should I prepare some patch?

[erick_kinnee@…]

Status? I was hoping for a build of vim.

[pete-darwinports@…]

Erick,

I managed to get it built using a slight modification on Bernhard's instructions. I built with the perl and aqua variations. It went along for a while, then crashed. I went to the build directory and edited src/os_mac.h. The lines in question are some pre-processor directives on lines 97 - 99. Delete these, then edit src/Makefile. Search for "-arch ppc" and remove that. Finally, you might have to do a "make clean" too to take care of the "damage" done stating the PPC architecture, the do a make build and you should be home free.

[bfi@…]

In the meantime I noticed that the vim built this "patching" way had problems with Unicode in the GUI. I found that the beta builds from ​http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php work quite well; maybe it's possible to use their patch set in DarwinPorts? (I admit using this precompiled version much less romantic than compiling myself and it feels strange to use a beta version as main editor – however, the next release seems imminent.)

[markd@…]

Vim 7.0 is the current version. Does it fix the problem?

[pete-darwinports@…]

I'm not having any problems with version 7.0 aside from launching gvim via Quicksilver, but I think that's beyond this forum.

Thanks.

[markd@…]

Version 7 is out and works so I'm closing this.