Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Building gvim 7.4 on CentOS 6.4

Building gvim 7.4 on CentOS 6.4

Am trying to build gvim7.4 from source on a box running CentOS 6.4. I
followed the instructions mentioned here to build vim locally. The
executable 'vim' gets built just fine, but 'gvim' is nowhere to be seen. I
tried everything that I could find on google but doesn't seem to be
helping.
Should 'gvim' be built using any other method (other than the usual
configure/make way)? Or is there any obscure trick to build the executable
for gvim?
My OS: CentOS 6.4. Has all X/devel stuff that's required. Command used is:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-compiledby="megazoe" \
--with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp \
--enable-pythoninterp --enable-python3interp \
--enable-gui=gnome2 --enable-luainterp \
--enable-perlinterp --enable-cscope
The stdout from configure has below stuff related to X:
checking if X11 header files can be found... yes
checking for _XdmcpAuthDoIt in -lXdmcp... no
checking for IceOpenConnection in -lICE... yes
checking for XpmCreatePixmapFromData in -lXpm... yes
checking if X11 header files implicitly declare return values... no
checking size of wchar_t is 2 bytes... no
checking --enable-gui argument... GNOME 2.x GUI support
checking --disable-gtktest argument... gtk test enabled
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK - version >= 2.2.0... yes; found version 2.18.9
checking for libgnomeui-2.0... yes
checking for FreeBSD... no
checking X11/SM/SMlib.h usability... yes
checking X11/SM/SMlib.h presence... yes
checking for X11/SM/SMlib.h... yes
checking X11/xpm.h usability... yes
checking X11/xpm.h presence... yes
checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
checking X11/Sunkeysym.h usability... yes
checking X11/Sunkeysym.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Sunkeysym.h... yes
checking for XIMText in X11/Xlib.h... yes
X GUI selected; xim has been enabled
checking for CYGWIN environment... no
Make doesn't throw any error , 'vim' gets built just fine. Only, there's
no gvim to be seen anywhere! I can use the -g switch with vim for a GUI
instance [vim -g] but that isn't gvim, with the GNOME menubar and the
works, which is what I want. Shouldn't 'gvim' get built since
--enable-gui=gnome2 is used? Or is gvim a totally different beast
altogether?
Any suggestions on how to get around this problem?
Thanks!

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