ports/82759: Source navigator installs in wrong directory

Greg Lehey grog at lemis.com
Wed Jun 29 02:30:23 UTC 2005


>Number:         82759
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Source navigator installs in wrong directory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 29 02:30:19 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Greg Lehey
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Rocksoft Ltd, Adelaide, Australia
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD echunga.lemis.com 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Mar 8 23:01:30 UTC 2005 root@:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/ECHUNGA/src/sys/ECHUNGA i386


>Description:

	The port /usr/ports/devel/sourcenav installs in the directory
	hierarchy /usr/local/sourcenav.  This is a non-standard way to
	install, and there is nothing in the documentation to prepare
	the user for it.  As a result, most peopke will be unable to
	even start the program.

	In view of the fact that this bug means that the program can't
	even be started, I'm giving it the category "serious".

>How-To-Repeat:
	
	$ cd /usr/ports/devel/sourcenav
	$ make install
	$ snavigateor
	bash: snavigator: command not found
	
>Fix:

	Install in /usr/local, not /usr/local/snavigator.  If there
	are serious reasons to keep the latter hierarchy, it should be
	well documented, and the documentation should be installed
	locally (maybe it is, but that fact it not documented).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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