I use a Vim plugin that requires +clientserver, and the default brew Vim recipe does not include the appropriate flags, so I'm trying to add it to the ./configure step.
I tried building Vim from source, but without success. I would like to try either using an alternate recipe -- there's one with the flags set that I require here -- or perhaps editing the Homebrew recipe itself ... however I am unsure how to proceed.
Can someone please give me some pointers to help me get started using either the alternate recipe, or with editing the Homebrew recipe itself?
Ultimately, I would like to learn how to do both things.
to compile terminal vim with the clientserver features, i did the following:
brew edit vim
and edited the ./configure options as follows (removed --enable-gui=no, and --without-x, and added --enable-gui=gtk2):
system "./configure", "--prefix=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
"--mandir=#{man}",
"--disable-nls",
"--enable-multibyte",
"--with-tlib=ncurses",
"--enable-cscope",
"--enable-rubyinterp",
"--enable-pythoninterp",
"--enable-gui=gtk2",
"--with-features=huge",
*language_opts
Then rvm use system (a ruby bug workaround that's always required for brewing vim); then brew install vim; and finally brew unlink vim && brew link vim.
To install from the target URL:
brew install https://gist.github.com/2004942/vim.rb
(though in this case, it is not what i did).
