How to build vim 7.3.285 from source

Question

I need to apply a patch to the vim source code, but I am having trouble finding the source code for version 7.3.285. The source code from the main vim site builds version 7.3.154. When I do a google search for "vim 7.3.285 source" I get mostly .rpm files and always something about Mandriva. I managed to find a .scr.rpm file and unpacked it, but then the main vim folder it had was exactly the same as the one on the vim site. My guess is that I have use the patch folder to apply the patch to version 285. So I tried the following:

• Download .src.rpm file here
• unpack .src.rpm file like so rpm2cpio vim-7.3.285-1.src.rpm | cpio -idmv --no-absolute-filenames
• apply the patches to the vim73 folder somewhat like so for i in 'seq 0 285'; do patch -p0 < ../vim-7.3-patches/7.3.$i; done
• then I also applied the aforementioned patch in a similar way patch -p1 -i ../vim-7.3.285-breakindent.patch
• finally I compiled vim: configure, make and sudo make install

However, and this is where it gets weird, if I issue the command vim, it claims to be running version 7.3.285. If however, I issue the command gvim it claims to be running version 7.3.154. It was my understanding that you compile vim and gvim gets compiled too. Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong? Is there a 7.3.285 source file I can download instead to test out?

Answer 1

vim 7.3.285-1ubu2204
is a simple RPM package adapted to ubuntu 22.04 and runs
with debbuild , a package described inside README.sdeb. see
e.g.  lynx ftp://stokkie.net/pub/linux/yt-dlp/DEB/ubuntu2204/README.sdeb

hubble:root]:(/var/ftp/pub/linux/vim/DEB/1ubu2204)# ll
total 5412
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    3604 Sep  6 02:10 installed-packages.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4189660 Oct 22  2023 vim-base_7.3.285-1ubu2204_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  972980 Oct 22  2023 vim-enhanced_7.3.285-1ubu2204_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  330772 Oct 22  2023 vim-minimal_7.3.285-1ubu2204_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   36982 Oct 22  2023 vim.spec
[hubble:root]:(/var/ftp/pub/linux/vim/DEB/1ubu2204)# 

stock@vax-linux:~$ dpkg -l | grep vim
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 51412 package 'metamail':
 missing 'Maintainer' field
ii  vim-base                                      7.3.285-1ubu2204                                  amd64        The base files needed by any version of the VIM editor
ii  vim-common                                    2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.17                            all          Vi IMproved - Common files
ii  vim-enhanced                                  7.3.285-1ubu2204                                  amd64        A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements
ii  vim-minimal                                   7.3.285-1ubu2204                                  amd64        A minimal version of the VIM editor
ii  vim-tiny                                      2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.17                            amd64        Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact version
stock@vax-linux:~$

root@vax-linux:~# dpkg -s vim-base
Package: vim-base
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: Editors
Maintainer: Robert M. Stockmann <stock@stokkie.net>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7.3.285-1ubu2204
Description: The base files needed by any version of the VIM editor
 VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi
 editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still
 very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows,
 multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-base package
 contains files which every VIM binary will need in order to run.
root@vax-linux:~# 

root@vax-linux:~# dpkg -s vim-enhanced
Package: vim-enhanced
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: Editors
Maintainer: Robert M. Stockmann <stock@stokkie.net>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7.3.285-1ubu2204
Provides: vim, vim-color
Depends: vim-base (>= 7.3.285-1ubu2204), perl-base, libtinfo6, libc6
Description: A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements
 VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi
 editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still
 very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows,
 multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-enhanced package
 contains a version of VIM with extra, recently introduced features like
 Python and Perl interpreters.
 .
 Install the vim-enhanced package if you'd like to use a version of the VIM
 editor which includes recently added enhancements like interpreters for the
 Python and Perl scripting languages. You'll also need to install the
 vim-base package.
root@vax-linux:~# 

root@vax-linux:~# dpkg -s vim-minimal
Package: vim-minimal
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: Editors
Maintainer: Robert M. Stockmann <stock@stokkie.net>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7.3.285-1ubu2204
Provides: vim
Depends: libc6, libtinfo6
Description: A minimal version of the VIM editor
 VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi
 editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still
 very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows,
 multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-minimal package
 includes a minimal version of VIM, which is installed into /bin/vi for use
 when only the root partition is present.
root@vax-linux:~#


%changelog
* Mon Aug 22 2011 Lonyai Gergely <aleph@mandriva.org> 7.3.285-1mdv2011.0
+ Revision: 696078
- 7.3-285
- 7.3-284
- 7.3-281
- 7.3-280
- 7.3-266

Answer 2

to get the 7.3.285 source clone the mercurial repo and then do hg up v7-3-285

full instructions here