Bug 1005290 - vim built without x11 support
Summary: vim built without x11 support
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vim
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-06 15:22 UTC by Rob
Modified: 2013-09-09 09:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-09-08 18:49:00 UTC
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Description Rob 2013-09-06 15:22:42 UTC 
Description of problem:

Various X related features are not enabled.

eg. issue :version command

Actual results:
-X11 -xterm_clipboard

Expected results:
+X11 +xterm_clipboard

Additional info:
If I build the vim source, configure isn't finding the X headers since /usr/include/X11/Intrinsic.h is missing.
yum install libXt-devel.x86_64
fixes it.
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2013-09-08 18:49:00 UTC 
vim from the vim-enhanced package is intentionally built without X support so that you can have a minimal system without any X libraries.
What you're looking for is in the vim-x11 package, either the GUI version gvim or the terminal version vimx
Comment 2 Rob 2013-09-09 09:08:21 UTC 
Yes, vimx is what I was looking for but didn't know it existed and wasted a lot of time working out what was wrong with vim and rebuilding it.  There is also no vimdiffx etc.

Wouldn't it be better for both packages to install it as 'vim' but you would choose which one to install based on the dependencies or type of system you were building?
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