Programming

$ uname -mor
2.6.37-ARCH i686 GNU/Linux
$ mkdir ~/birei && cd ~/birei
$ wget ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2
$ tar jxvf vim-7.3.tar.bz2 && cd vim73/src
$ cp Makefile Makefile.orig
$ # Change Makefile to request debugging info and install it in my home dir.
$ vim Makefile
$ diff Makefile Makefile.orig
540c540
< CFLAGS = -g
---
> #CFLAGS = -g
908c908
< prefix = ~/birei
---
> #prefix = $(HOME)
$ make
$ make test
...
Test results:
ALL DONE
...
$ make install
$ cd ~/birei/bin/
$ gdb ./vim
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from ~/birei/bin/vim...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) s
The program is not being run.
(gdb) b main
Function "main" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
Breakpoint 1 (main) pending.
(gdb) run
...

$ vim Makefile
$ diff Makefile Makefile.orig
540c540
< CFLAGS = -g
---
> #CFLAGS = -g
908c908
< prefix = ~/birei
---
> #prefix = $(HOME)
1852c1852
< #    $(STRIP) $(DEST_BIN)/$(VIMTARGET)
---
>     $(STRIP) $(DEST_BIN)/$(VIMTARGET)

$ gdb ./vim
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from ~/birei/bin/vim...done.
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80c7e47: file main.c, line 168.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/dcgub/Public/devvim/bin/vim 

Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff444) at main.c:168
168    {
(gdb)