Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Frank P. Hart" To: "Cygwin" Subject: Question on features built into Cygwin Vim binary (for Corinna) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:01:24 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Note-from-DJ: This may be spam I noticed that Cygwin-distributed Vim binary did not have support for Cscope built-in ('-cscope' returned from the :version command), so I downloaded the source and after about a dozen failed attempts -- mostly due to operator error -- I finally got a build that will work. However, I noticed that some features in the Cygwin binary are absent in my build, and I hope you can tell me what I may be missing and if it's important. Other than the presence of Cscope support, the only other feature differences are the following: -gettext, -iconv, -multi-byte. I have some idea what I'm losing with -multi-byte, but what are the other features for? The Makefile is handy for documenting some of the features, but not these. BTW, the :version command also informs me that my compilation was missing the following libraries: -liconv -lintl. Finally, a word to all those clamoring for a gvim for Cygwin: I applied patches through 1-154 and attempted to build for Motif (using Lesstif) and X11 GUI. I got an executable built, but it suffers from a segmentation violation as soon as it starts. And it doesn't matter whether I use Xfree-86 or a commercial X-server (e.g. XWin32 from Starnet). Console mode works reliably, and when built without X support it does start up noticeably faster. _______________________________________________________________________ Frank P. Hart NC State University Dept. of Electrical and P.O. Box 7914 Computer Engineering Raleigh, NC 27695-7914 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/