[gentoo-amd64] VIM: No tags file

[gentoo-amd64] VIM: No tags file

[Daiajo Tibdixious]

Until about a month ago :help worked fine in vim, however now it gives:
E433: No tags file
E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt

Initially I thought it was because I set -doc in USE, but vim does not
use this use flag.
Searching for this particular error produces loads of pages due to
"tags file" matching lots of comments about vim.

I eventually found (from the VIM FAQ) that there should be a
$RUNTIME/doc directory,
which isn't present, despite putting "doc" in package.use for VIM, and
upgrading it TODAY.

I 'fixed' it by
# ebuild /usr/portage/app-editors/vim/vim-7.0.174.ebuild unpack
# cd /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-7.0.174/work
(after some stuffing around with the Makefile and grep)
# mv -v runtime/doc /usr/share/vim/vim70

and :help now works.

So, why isn't emerge putting the doc directory in place?

I've been reading the Makefile but I've not noticed any USE flag
control (not that I understand how USE flags control the build).
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: VIM: No tags file

[Duncan]

"Daiajo Tibdixious" <daiajo@gmail.com> posted
a4a9bfcb0703040004i6ac795d8u51f9ea3619d6f1c4@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:04:24 +1100:

> I eventually found (from the VIM FAQ) that there should be a
> $RUNTIME/doc directory, which isn't present, despite putting "doc"
> in package.use for VIM, and upgrading it TODAY.
> 
> I 'fixed' it by
> # ebuild /usr/portage/app-editors/vim/vim-7.0.174.ebuild unpack 
> # cd /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-7.0.174/work
> (after some stuffing around with the Makefile and grep)
> # mv -v runtime/doc /usr/share/vim/vim70
> 
> and :help now works.
> 
> So, why isn't emerge putting the doc directory in place?

I'm not a vim user, but that sounds very much like an ebuild bug to me.  
I'd suggest filing it as such, after checking to see if there's a already 
one filed on that (as it may be), of course.

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