editors/vim installs to /

Wesley Shields wxs at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 17 23:22:25 UTC 2010


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:
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> >> 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


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