Re: removal of GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX from editors/ed?

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:53:35AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Anyone care if I remove the GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX support from 
> pkgsrc/editors/ed?
> 
> The package has a security issue.
> 
> The new versions no longer support "binprefix".
> 
> This means it will be installed as ed and red (instead of ged and gred).
> 
> Two other alternatives: I install manually with post-install target or I 
> patch the Makefile.in and configure* to add --program-prefix support.
> 
> As for me, I only use this package on Linux systems and I have 
> GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX= empty.

On NetBSD, and some other systems too, I suspect, we already have
/bin/ed, and so your change would give us a PATH lottery as to
which one gets exec'ed.

I suspect a post-install target would be better.

Regards,
Alistair