Script I use to build the latest Vim on Ubuntu

rebuild-vim.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -e

COMPILED_BY="Marius Gedminas <marius@gedmin.as>"
FEATURES=
FEATURES="$FEATURES --with-features=huge"  # yum, features
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-multibyte"    # vim is *crippled* without this!
                                           # (BTW 'big' implies this)
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-pythoninterp" # most of my plugins use this
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-rubyinterp"   # Command-T wants this
#FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-perlinterp"  # ruby + perl = segfault
#FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-luainterp"
#FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-mzschemeinterp"
#FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-python3interp"
#FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-tcpinterp"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-cscope"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-gpm"

# taken from ubuntu's debian/rules
FEATURES="$FEATURES --with-x"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-xim"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-gui=gnome2"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --disable-gtk2-check"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-gnome-check"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --disable-motif-check"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --disable-athena-check"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --disable-fontset"
FEATURES="$FEATURES --enable-fail-if-missing"

# ubuntu 13.04 did something weird to the python config directory
FEATURES="$FEATURES --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)"

#CFLAGS="-DUSE_FILE_CHOOSER" <-- buggy, fsync() with every keystroke is bad
CFLAGS="-g"

test -d ~/src/vim || {
    echo "To get vim sources do" 1>&2
    echo "  hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ ~/src/vim" 1>&2
    exit 1
}
cd ~/src/vim
# hg pull -u?
# make sure I have all the build-deps?
rm -f src/auto/config.cache
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" ./configure $FEATURES --with-compiledby="$COMPILED_BY" \
&& make -j4 && uname -m > .arch || {
    echo "Consider" 1>&2
    echo "  sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome" 1>&2
    exit 1
}
# for that matter, if you get
#   checking if compile and link flags for Python are sane... no: PYTHON DISABLED
# config.log says
#   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
# the fix is to:
#   apt-get install libssl-dev

# also, if you get a vim without ruby support, make sure you
#   sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
# there's a sad bug in Ubuntu 12.10 where ruby1.8-dev Provides: ruby-dev (while
# the real ruby-dev Depends: ruby1.9.1-dev), and so apt-get build-dep vim
# doesn't notice you don't have the right header files

# the .arch thing is for my vim wrapper script
# I have a NFS home shared between i686 and x86-64 machines

vim.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# Wrapper that runs vim from its source directory so I don't need to run 'make install' ever.
# Also adds some fancy interactive stuff because I tend to vim /etc/configfile and forget to sudo
#
if [ -n "$1" ] && [ -f "$1" ] && ! [ -w "$1" ]; then
    echo "$1 is not writable by you, perhaps you want to"
    echo
    echo "   sudo $0 $@"
    echo
    read -p "run under sudo? [Y/n/q] " answer
    case "$answer" in
        y|Y|"")
            exec sudo "$0" "$@"
            ;;
        q|Q)
            exit
            ;;
    esac
fi
vimhome=$HOME/src/vim
# the /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 check needs explanation:
# shared NFS home between to x86_64 machines, one running ubuntu 12.04, one running ubuntu 10.04
# vim built on 12.04 and links to libtinfo.so.5, which doesn't exist on ubuntu 10.04
if test -x $vimhome/src/vim && test "`uname -m`" = "`cat $vimhome/.arch`" && test -f /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5; then
    VIMRUNTIME=$vimhome/runtime $vimhome/src/vim "$@"
else
    /usr/bin/vim "$@"
fi