Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Re: Enabling/Disabling Vim features during compilation

When running incremental make (running make after a source update,
without rerunning configure, in order to compile only what is
necessary, i.e. changed modules plus anything that depends on them) it
may happen (rarely but not never) that make spontaneously decides to
rerun configure. Of course, if you pass configure arguments on the
configure command-line, make won't have them at hand. The "safe" way
is never to run configure yourself, but always let make do it, and
pass configure arguments to make by means of environment variables.
I'm attaching as examples the scripts which I use to compile one
version each of Huge, Big, Normal, Small and Tiny Vim, in each case
plus or minus some particular features which I want to have or not to
have in that particular build of Vim. These scripts (written for the
bash shell) must be "sourced", not "run", by the same shell which will
run "make" (and/or "make config" "make reconfig" "make install" etc.)
When there are new patches, I run five instances of make in parallel,
each in its own shell with its own configuration. If you want to use
these scripts, at least one line (the "compiled by" line) and possibly
others, must be changed: use your best taste and good judgment. These
scripts happen to have the same filename: don't download them under
that name into the same directory.

Best regards,
Tony.

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