vim-core emerge has an awk error

[zojas]

trying to emerge vim-core-6.3-r2 (then vim, then gvim). added the ppc-macos keyword to the ebuild. when emerging I get this error at the configure stage:

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6.3.014: src/option.c src/version.c
6.3.015: src/eval.c src/version.c
6.3.016: src/option.c src/version.c
6.3.017: src/normal.c src/version.c
6.3.018:awk: src/ex_cmds.h makes too many open files
 input record number 1610, file
 source line number 16

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

!!! ERROR: app-editors/vim-core-6.3-r2 failed.
!!! Function apply_vim_patches, Line 157, Exitcode 2

do I need to emerge a different awk first, which can handle this?

thanks.

[danie]

If your end goal is gvim then you will have your work cut out for you, since there are a number of unkeyworded packages that need to be compiled to get to gvim. If you just need vim, I think that OS X 10.3 comes with vim 6.2, which you might be able to use with gvim. In order to see everything that leads to gvim, you can emerge -pv gvim.

Also since your edits will disappear with the next sync, it is best not to directly edit the ebuild; if you are interested in compiling a specific version of a package then you should add it to /etc/portage/package.unmask:
echo "=app-editors/vim-core-6.3-r2" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask.

[zojas]

thanks for the tip about the package.unmask file.

I forgot to mention that I like gvim with the athena widgets rather than gtk, so there aren't really any dependencies to worry about. I want gvim since I use X11 in full screen mode in OS X.

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quasar:~ root# USE="-gtk -gtk2 -motif" emerge -pv gvim

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/vim-core-6.3-r2  -acl -debug -livecd -ncurses -nls (-selinux) 0 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] app-editors/gvim-6.3-r1  -acl -cscope -debug (-gnome) (-gpm) -gtk -gtk2 -motif -ncurses -nls +perl +python +ruby (-selinux) 0 kB 

Total size of downloads: 0 kB