gvimcentos.txt

The trick seems to be setting a proper vimruntime dir while invoking make, and having below ones

--enable-gui=gnome2
--with-x=yes
in list of switches for configure script.

Here's my test build script which seems to be giving the required result.

mkdir /tmp/vimbuild; cd /tmp/vimbuild
wget -c ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf vim-7.4.tar.bz2
cd vim74
\rm -rf src/auto/config.cache
make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-compiledby="megazoe"   \
            --with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp    \
            --enable-pythoninterp --enable-python3interp    \
            --disable-tclinterp --with-x=yes \
            --enable-xim --enable-multibyte \
            --enable-gui=gnome2 \
            --enable-luainterp --enable-perlinterp \
            --enable-cscope \
            --enable-netbeans 2>&1

make -j20 VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/tmp/vimbuild/vim74/runtime/ 
if [ -f src/vim ]
then
  \cp -f src/vim src/gvim
  strip src/gvim
  ./src/gvim &
fi
Having the final executable named as 'gvim' is important, else it needs to be invoked as vim -g for being in GUI mode.