On 14 December 2016 at 18:45, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> I'm guessing that 5 years on, this report is no longer relevant, so I'm
> closing it. Obviously feel free to reopen if needed.
>

​You guessed right! This was near the top of my to-do list anyway, so I
checked with an equivalent up-to-date minimal-ish configuration, and was
able to build with no problems. Still builds a 14Mb binary, though! (cf.
vim-basic at 2.4Mb, vim-tiny at 1.1Mb).

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