Instructions for building vim-5.8 into the sipb locker
Brad Thompson <yak>
July 15, 2001

Make a symlink farm to /mit/sipb/src/vim-5.8, cd into that directory, run
configure.sipblocker, and run gmake.  Be very careful installing...vim
installs a lot of symlinks you don't want like "ex".  I use a staging
directory called /mit/sipb that is not the sipb locker for this, and
hand install the files.  You only need to install the vim binary and
gvim symlink after the first platfrom---they are the only platform
dependent files.

There are a number of utility programs that come with vim.  xxd is
installed, but almost never changes, so I don't bother with it.  Vim no
longer comes with etags and ctags binaries, so that's one less thing to
worry about not installing.