New gvim (was Re: Updated: vim-7.0.035-1)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 7 07:41:00 GMT 2006


On Jun 27 11:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 26 16:55, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > could you please update the gvim package to vim7, too?
> > 
> > Hmm, I see that gvim is quite a popular package. :-)  The problem is
> > that I'm too many steps ahead of the distribution right now:
> > 
> > 1) I'm running a snapshot Cygwin environment,
> 
> You know that you just have to close all Cygwin processes, rename the
> Cygwin DLLs and then you can test running apps under the older DLL,
> don't you?
> 
> > [.....]
> > Either way, I'll look at 7.0.035 soon.
> 
> I'm obviously running snapshots, too.  It's quite easy.  Build gvim,
> replace the Cygwin DLL and see what error dialog "symbol foo could
> not be found in cygwin1.dll" it comes up with.  For the non-GUI vim
> it's just sigset().  I managed that by manually disabling HAVE_SIGSET
> in src/auto/config.h.  Well... I *forgot* to do that for 7.0.035-1,
> that's why there's 7.0.035-2, but it's still easy.

Now that 1.5.20 is out, could you please release gvim 7?


Corinna

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