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Yee Cheng Chin 438c94e41c Install Vim runtime to the MacVim app bundle properly

Previously, MacVim's build process simply used an Xcode post-build
script to copy the runtime folder to the target app bundle's
Contents/Resources/vim/runtime folder and called it a day. However,
that's actually not the correct procedure because the runtime folder
contains misc files (e.g. Makefile/testdir for testing) and they should
go through a install step using `make install` to properly deploy the
proper files to the target folder.

Fix this by changing the post-build script to call the relevant make
targets instead of just blindly copying it over. We still copy the
vim/view/etc and vimtutor binaries separately for now, because the mvim
script is a custom script for MacVim, although that could change in
future.

One of the corollary of using the builtin installation scripts is that
man pages (for CLI vim/gvim usage) are now properly generated. They are
now stored under `MacVim.app/Contents/man`, and a user can set MANPATH to
it if they so wish.

Another corollary is that we now bundle xxd with MacVim like most Vim
distributions. It was probably an oversight before, and now it's built
and bundled in the `MacVim.app/Contents/bin` folder like the
vim/view/mvim scripts.

One annoying thing with Xcode is that in order for incremental builds to
work properly we want it to only run this installation step if the
runtime folder has changed (it takes a couple secs to finish) and
Xcode's input file lists doesn't support recursive folder search. To fix
this, add a build step to manually generate the list of all runtime
folders called runtime_folder_list.xcfilelist which we pass to the build
step.

Fix #1417

2023-09-11 15:54:27 -07:00