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On Fri, 24 May 2002 20:10:17 -0400 |
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Eric Moncrieff <eric@××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hello Gentoo Team, |
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> When I discovered, to my surprise, that I was forced to use nano, I |
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> immediately decided to take your Portage system for a spin, and typed |
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> 'emerge app-editors/vi'. Vi was built from source (though I'm not |
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> clear on which particular vi you used). However, when I tried to run |
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> it, it segfaulted. So I was stuck with nano. |
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Could you please give me a backtrace of this? I'm the one "responsible" |
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for vi as of the moment, and this is the second occurance of a random |
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heisenbug for vi that I've seen, noone so far has been able to debug it |
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since it goes away with their second install (It works for me, in the |
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systems I've tried, could be a library interdependency bug) |
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As for the version of vi used, its the "original" vi 3.7, as released |
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by Caldera into the open some time ago, linked against ncurses instead |
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of terminfo, mostly as a convenience. |
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> So I tried 'emerge app-editors/vim', which built all of X for me (I |
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> have to remember the --pretend option). This was fine, but it took a |
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> long time, and all I wanted to do was edit my startup scripts. |
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it only builds X if you have either: |
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gnome |
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gtk |
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X |
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tcltk |
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in your USE flags, its perfectly capable of building without X :) |
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(gtk requires X to build, gnome requires gtk, X.... well. and tk |
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requires X ) |
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> So now I've got a working vi, which I'm happy about. Of course, after |
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> kde finishes building, I'm going to build emacs, so I won't be using |
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> my new vi very much, but still...For all this long time, we've been |
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> able to count on vi as the quick, omnipresent editor. But not for |
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> Gentoo. |
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No, vim was dropped at one point due to the amount of dependencies it |
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caused to build "proper" (ncurses terminfo I think it was), wether the |
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minimalist vi were a bit harsh and user-unfriendly according to some. |
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GNU Nano is relatively simple and fullfeatured, even for users who |
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havent tried it before. |
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//Spider |
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