Installing Vim on PowerPC

dbbolton

dbbolton

I am attempting to build vim on a PowerPC machine.

Code: 
cd /usr/ports/editors/vim
sudo make install clean

This is the output I get

Code: 
=> 7.3.017 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.017
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.017: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.017
7.3.017                                                 10 MB   10 MBps
=> 7.3.018 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.018
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.018: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.018
7.3.018                                               4978 kB 4978 kBps
=> 7.3.019 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.019
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.019: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.019
7.3.019                                               6638 kB 6638 kBps
=> 7.3.020 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.020
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.020: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.020
7.3.020                                               9373 kB 9373 kBps
=> 7.3.021 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.021
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.021: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.021
7.3.021                                               7195 kB 7195 kBps
=> 7.3.022 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.022
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.022: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.022
7.3.022                                               6084 kB 6084 kBps
=> 7.3.023 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.023
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.023: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.023
7.3.023                                               8114 kB 8114 kBps
=> 7.3.024 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.024
fetch: http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.024: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.024
7.3.024                                               6026 kB 6026 kBps
=> 7.3.025 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.
=> Attempting to fetch http://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.025

And it just keeps going. It has been doing this for 15 minutes or so. Is this normal?

Also, I previously tried to install it with pkg_add -r vim and got this error:

Code: 
Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/powerpc/packages-9-stable/Latest/vim.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

Is there no PPC build of vim?
 
Fetching all the 1000 or so patches for editors/vim can take a long time. It's a poor decision by the VIM developers to not bundle up all the patches in one file that is hard to remedy in the FreeBSD ports system.
 
Ok. What about the built package though? Why is only vim-lite available on the ftp server mentioned earlier? Does no package exist for powerpc, do I have the wrong server, is it missing, or something else?
 
dbbolton said:
Ok. What about the built package though? Why is only vim-lite available on the ftp server mentioned earlier? Does no package exist for powerpc, do I have the wrong server, is it missing, or something else?
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I think editors/vim builds vim-lite by default these days. And packages are always built from the default port options.
 
On top of that, PowerPC is low on the priority list for packages because it's a "tier 2" architecture.
 
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