The configtest checks try to open the root directories too, operation that can fail when they're expected to be inside a chroot.

Only a server-level bare `param' is (and in hindsight it was just a terrible idea to add it in the first place.)

ALE is faster and otherwise better alternative to Syntastic.

the standalone / config-less mode was removed from gmid and put into gemexp time ago...

unfortunately that's not portable. config.h will include the right stuff however.