Bug 18919 – gvim does not work with USE="+gtk", gvim ebuild does not support motif

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Georgios E. Kylafas 2003-04-07 15:00:39 UTC]

Two issues I would like to mention about gvim: 
 
1. gvim does not work for me when configured to use gtk. Whenever I run gvim, I get 
the same results as when invoking plain vim, i.e. vim starts in console mode 
 
2. vim has support for the motif widget set, but the gvim ebuild does not offer this. 
However, I managed to get gvim to compile and run properly with the motif gui, by 
modifying the vim.eclass and the gvim-6.1-r8.ebuild (I will attach the patches to this 
report soon). 
After applying, I used: 
USE="-gtk" emerge gvim 
and everything worked fine. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
 



Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config 
/usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg 
ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang 
readline arts svga java X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl python imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde 
motif opengl -alsa cdr dga doc dvd fbcon -gnome -gpm imap maildir mysql perl samba 
scanner sse tcltk tetex tiff wmf" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" 
FEATURES="sandbox buildpkg ccache userpriv usersandbox"

[Comment 1 Georgios E. Kylafas 2003-04-07 15:02:49 UTC]

Created attachment 10337 [details, diff]
add motif support to gvim ebuild

[Comment 2 Georgios E. Kylafas 2003-04-07 15:04:07 UTC]

Created attachment 10338 [details, diff]
add motif support to vim eclass

[Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-04-08 16:32:13 UTC]

Thanks, good idea to enable the motif interface.  I'll get that change in ASAP.  However I'd also like to know why gtk didn't work for you.  I've not heard of that happening previously.  Would you mind running "USE=gtk emerge gvim" and attaching the entire output?  Thanks.

[Comment 4 Georgios E. Kylafas 2003-04-10 14:45:13 UTC]

Created attachment 10472 [details]
Output of USE="+gtk" emerge -B gvim

I attach the whole output as you requested.

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-04-23 17:07:42 UTC]

Georgios,

I don't know why the gtk version isn't working for you.  I haven't heard of this problem elsewhere.  My best guess is that something is broken in your gtk installation or configuration, maybe a theme issue?  Anyway, if you figure it out, that would be helpful.  The build output looks fine.

I've committed 6.2a (presently ~ masked) which includes motif support.  I will unmask it soon.

Aron