Bug 58820

Summary:	vi: exrecover won´t work cause of missing symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	piefke1984
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Vim Maintainers <vim>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	seemant
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description piefke1984 2004-07-29 12:57:34 UTC

it is possible to execute by the command "vi -r" exrecover. this command shows you unsaved files (most likely after a system crash).
the exrecover binary file is installed to /usr/libexec . vi searches for the file /var/lib/exrecover and tries execution. cause it is a directory, you get a "permission denied". this should be a symlink to /usr/libexec/exrecover.

same problem with the directory /var/lib/expreserve and the program /usr/libexec/expreserve

workaround:
rm -r /var/lib/exrecover
ln -sf /usr/libexec/exrecover /var/lib/exrecover

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge vi
2. execute vi -r

Actual Results:  
"permission denied" cause vi tried executing a directory

Expected Results:  
symlink to /usr/libexec/exrecover to execute this file and show unsaved files

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-07-31 03:47:44 UTC

Seemant -- looking through cvs log, it appears to be you who added in these:

                RECOVER="-DEXRECOVER=\\\"/var/lib/exrecover\\\" \
                         -DEXPRESERVE=\\\"/var/lib/expreserve\\\"" \

Don't suppose you can remember why you added that? The binaries still get installed to libexec anyway, it's hardcoded in the Makefile.

Comment 2 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-08-12 12:09:16 UTC

vi-3.7-r6 has the RECOVER stuff removed. Appears to work, please reopen if not :)