Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "William" == William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> writes:

William> The problem is that if you build vim with USE=X, and X is not
William> running, vim will not start as it cannot see X

(First, I should note that the real problem occurs when the dynamic
linker cannot find all of the libs /usr/bin/vim is linked against, as
will occur if eg /usr/X11Rb/lib is corrupted.)

The solution is for the vim ebuild to build not only a full-featured
/usr/bin/vim, but also a /bin/vim that links only to libs in /lib.

This is a standard thing to do; gentoo should follow suit.

Even gentoo's nvi ebuild fails to accomplish this, since gentoo puts
libdb.so in /usr/lib.

It would probably help to move libattr.so from /usr/lib to /lib.
That would mean the current vim ebuild would only have to leave out X
and gpm support to work in /bin.

Although it should also *silently* ignore a missing VIMRUNTIME
directory, skipping things like syntax highlighting in that case.

And lastly the default PATH should use the proper /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin /bin order, instead of the /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
order gentoo currently uses.  (A bug in /etc/profile; login.defs
gets it right.)

-JimC



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