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I learned about using :profile here, so I just tried to install vim with profiling enabled.

I tried this:

./configure --prefix=/home/username --with-features=profile

But in the output from configure I got the message

Sorry, profile is not supported

Does that mean that profile is not an option for me at all because of my OS, or is there something that I can do to make it "supported"?

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Christopher Bottoms
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  • Perhaps Vim can't find libperl.so and skips it because of that? You should post at least the full output of vim --version (has linker command) and preferable also the full output of ./configure and make... You should have something like -L/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE -lperl in there. – Martin Tournoij Mar 10 '15 at 14:07
  • @Carpetsmoker You're right. That is missing. Thanks! – Christopher Bottoms Mar 10 '15 at 14:17
  • @Carpetsmoker Thanks. I didn't think to look in the middle of the configure output before your comment. I updated the question to focus on getting profile enabled (a necessity for me) and perl is more of a want. – Christopher Bottoms Mar 10 '15 at 14:25

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I don't think you can enable the profile feature via ./configure; you either have to define FEAT_PROFILE or simply build a huge version of Vim, which then includes that feature. From src/feature.h:

/*
* +profile      Profiling for functions and scripts.
*/
#if defined(FEAT_HUGE) \
        && defined(FEAT_EVAL) \
        && ((defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) && defined(HAVE_SYS_TIME_H)) \
                || defined(WIN3264))
# define FEAT_PROFILE
#endif

TL;DR

./configure --with-features=huge
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--with-features=profile doesn't seem to be valid option; :help profile says:

The +profile feature is required for this. It is only included when Vim was compiled with "huge" features.

So use:

$ ./configure --with-features=huge
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