updated for version 7.3.315 Problem: Opening a window before forking causes problems for GTK. Solution: Fork first, create the window in the child and report back to the parent process whether it worked. If successful the parent exits, if unsuccessful the child exits and the parent continues in the terminal. (Tim Starling)

the first targets to make vim are: scratch config myself
srcdir = .
VIMNAME = vim
EXNAME = ex
VIEWNAME = view