Compile Vim on OSX (Mountain Lion)

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# default vim on osx doesn't have python, ruby support or clipboard support.  These configure options add all that
# I also ran into problems using rvm ruby, had to include those libs in the LDFLAGS for vim

# Steps:

$ rvm install 1.9.1
$ rvm use 1.9.1  # vim doesn't support anything higher
$ curl ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2 | tar xj
$ cd vim73
$ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-perlinterp=yes --enable-rubyinterp=yes --enable-pythoninterp=yes --enable-multibyte
$ # edit src/auto/config.mk, add `-L/Users/dcosson/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.1-p431/lib` to the LDFLAGS row
$ make
$ sudo make install

Thank you so much for this! This got 7.3 working on my Mac so that I can now copy to the system clipboard :-)

Nothing worked except this! Thanks a lot!

Thanks after a few days to looking for an answer this is the golden key !! thanks !!

The rvm command 'rvm install 1.9.1' failed for me on OS X Lion with the following error:

"The provided compiler '/usr/bin/gcc' is LLVM based, it is not yet fully supported by ruby and gems, please read 'rvm requirements.' "

I was able to get past this by adding --with-gcc=clang to the rvm command.