after emergeing app-editors/vim-6.4 vim tries to open /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim which fails as the file is actually located in /usr/share/vim/vim64/syntax/ highlighting for eg. .bashrc doesnt work Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge app-editors/vim 2. edit a file with vim Actual Results: vim gives the following warning Error detected while processing /etc/vim/vimrc: line 87: E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim Hit ENTER or type command to continue Expected Results: editing should start without warning and highlighting should work root: ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-wonderland x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-wonderland x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse2 -m3dnow -ftracer -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse2 -m3dnow -ftracer -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss emul-linux-x86 encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg lcms ldap lzw lzw-tiff mad mng mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vim-with-x xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY after reading on bug 107959 I fixed the problem with: export VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim64/
What exact versions of vim, vim-core and gvim do you have?
everything updatet to 6.4
If all your Vim versions are the same, you shouldn't be setting VIM_RUNTIME at all. (And if all your Vim versions aren't the same, you should make them the same.)
sorry, I was wrong about my vim version