Fixing MacVim on OS X Mavericks

Experience told me to delay upgrading to OS X Mavericks for as long as possible because the upgrade would likely break my dev environment. Sure enough, the upgrade broke MacVim.

~$ which mvim

~$ 

The ‘nix which command returned a null response when asked about MacVim. Not cool, Mavericks!

Fortunately, I’m running Homebrew. After the standard brew doctor and brew update, the following resolved the MacVim problem:

~$ brew uninstall macvim
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-70...

~$ 

followed by…

~$ brew install macvim
==> Downloading https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/archive/snapshot-72.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --with-macarchs=x86_64 --enable-perlinterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-tcli
==> make
==> Caveats
.app bundles were installed.
Run `brew linkapps` to symlink these to /Applications.
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-72: 1799 files, 28M, built in 37 seconds

~$ 

And now…

~$ which mvim
/usr/local/bin/mvim

~$ 

Whew. Homebrew saves the day again!

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