editors/vim installs to /

jhell jhell at DataIX.net
Fri Sep 17 23:34:04 UTC 2010


On 09/17/2010 19:22, Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:18:09PM -0400, jhell wrote:
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>> On 09/17/2010 17:19, Wesley Shields wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:49:37PM -0400, jhell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> After a force upgrade of vim that had failed unfortunately not
>>>> registering the files it installed already I found out that it is
>>>> installing to / ~!!!!! ugh.
>>>>
>>>> Why is ${PREFIX} being used and not ${LOCALBASE} ???
>>>
>>> I reverted to the previous Makefile just to get something working before
>>> I leave. I did want to point out that the cleanup (at least for me) was
>>> not that hard. /man and /share were left behind along with a handful of
>>> files in /bin that shouldn't have been there. Once I had reverted and
>>> installed vim I was able to use something like
>>>
>>> pkg_info -L -x vim | fgrep /usr/local/bin | sed -e 's|/usr/local||'
>>>
>>> To find the files which were in /bin that should not have been there.
>>> Not all of them were there in my case but the cleanup was easy. Just
>>> delete /man and /share and the handful of files in /bin.
>>>
>>> I still don't know what the real fix for this is but hopefully someone
>>> is working on it. ;)
>>>
>>> -- WXS
>>
>> Attached is the exact patch that fixes this. The two effected areas are
>> post & pre-configure. My best guess on this lays on the REINPLACE_CMD in
>> pre-configure but I could be wrong.
> 
> You may want to also revert the MAKE_JOBS_SAFE too.
> 
> -- WXS


Yeah I am leaving that up to the committee to decide. With that setting
here, it builds and installs fine so I am not concerned with it as I
have no control over the end result.

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 jhell,v


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