configure editors/vim

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 15 02:42:23 PDT 2007


On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:07:46PM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> Brownie ports for someone that can explain why this always happens for me
> with ports that have OPTIONS:
> 
>     bash$ make
>     cd /usr/ports/editors/vim && make config;
>     ===>  Switching to root credentials to create /var/db/ports/vim
>     Password:
>     ===>  Returning to user credentials
>     [3]+  Stopped                 WITH_OPTIONS=1 make

/var/db/ports/*/options, the place where options are kept, is
only accessible to root.


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