CentOS rpmbuild-ing vim for Ruby support
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Recently I switched from Ubuntu 11.04 to CentOS 5.7, only to find out that CentOS’s version of vim was build sans Ruby support:
vim --version | grep ruby
-ruby as in Ruby support is unavailable. This was undesirable, as I’ve become a Command-T user. This is an excellent plugin (for vim) requiring Ruby support. There are a couple of blog posts about it, but required consolidation, so here is my (mostly) repost on the solution.
The posts recommend setting up an rpmbuild environment for building from source, which is basically a Linux user rpmbuild, plus a ~/.rpmmacros definition, plus the source RPM.
# Not needed if this user exists
useradd rpmbuild
# Switch to it
su - rpmbuild
# What's in ~/.rpmmacros?
cat ~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir /home/rpmbuild/rpm
%_tmppath /home/rpmbuild/rpm/tmp
# Building for x86_64
mkdir -p rpm/{BUILD,RPMS/x86_64,RPMS/noarch,SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,tmp}
# Download the source RPM, removing the perl-devel dependency from vim.spec
cd rpm/SRPMS
wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/vim-7.2.411-1.6.el6.src.rpm
# Install rpmbuild
yum -y install rpm-build
# Start the build process
rpmbuild -bb ~/rpm/SPEC/vim.spec
# Install the newly-built RPM
rpm -Uvh ~/rpm/RPMS/x86_64/vim-{m,c,e}*