diff --git a/base/llvm/install-prefix.patch b/base/llvm/install-prefix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b8ce03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/llvm/install-prefix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+starting from llvm14 the install prefix breaks via symlinks;
+/usr/lib/llvm14/lib/cmake/llvm/LLVMConfig.cmake goes up 3 directories to find
+/usr/lib/llvm14/include as LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS, but to even use this cmake folder
+at all it has to be symlinked to /usr/lib/cmake/llvm .. so the directory it
+instead uses is just /usr/include, which is not where the cmake includes are.
+this hardcodes them to the install prefix we pass via cmake, which should
+always be correct, and what cmake tries to autodetect anyway.
+
+also see: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29969
+
+this is supposedly fixed now, but for some reason it still isn't
+--- a/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
+ #
+ 
+ set(LLVM_CONFIG_CODE "
++# this is wrong when automatically detected
++set(LLVM_INSTALL_PREFIX \"${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}\")
+ # LLVM_BUILD_* values available only from LLVM build tree.
+ set(LLVM_BUILD_BINARY_DIR \"${LLVM_BINARY_DIR}\")
+ set(LLVM_BUILD_LIBRARY_DIR \"${LLVM_LIBRARY_DIR}\")
+@@ -109,8 +111,6 @@
+ #
+ # Generate LLVMConfig.cmake for the install tree.
+ #
+-
+-find_prefix_from_config(LLVM_CONFIG_CODE LLVM_INSTALL_PREFIX "${LLVM_INSTALL_PACKAGE_DIR}")
+ 
+ extend_path(LLVM_CONFIG_MAIN_INCLUDE_DIR "\${LLVM_INSTALL_PREFIX}" "${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}")
+ # This is the same as the above because the handwritten and generated headers
diff --git a/base/llvm/llvm.SMBuild b/base/llvm/llvm.SMBuild
index b632aca..ce565e7 100755
--- a/base/llvm/llvm.SMBuild
+++ b/base/llvm/llvm.SMBuild
@@ -1,26 +1,35 @@
 # Maintainer: PktSurf <smlinux@pktsurf.in>
 app=llvm
-version=15.0.7
-build=2sml
+version=17.0.6
+build=1sml
 homepage="http://llvm.org/"
 download="https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-$version/llvm-$version.src.tar.xz"
 desc="LLVM compiler toolkit"
-requires="libffi libxml2 perl"
+requires="libffi libxml2 perl cmake"
+# llvm loves to override any option that alters placement of binaries
+ignoreusrbin=1
 
 prepbuilddir() {
   mkandenterbuilddir
   rm -rf $app-$version.src
+  # In case the user decides to resume an incomplete build
+  [[ -d cmake ]] && rm -r cmake
 
   tar xf $srcdir/$app-$version.src.tar.?z*
   cd $app-$version.src 
   fixbuilddirpermissions
-  
+
+  applypatch $srcdir/install-prefix.patch
+
+  buildtargets='X86;AMDGPU;BPF'
+
+  # cmake modules directory needs to one level up
   (
     cd ..
-    tar xf $srcdir/cmake-$version.src.tar.xz
-    cp -r cmake-$version.src cmake
+    tar xf $srcdir/cmake-$version.src.tar.?z
+    mv cmake-$version.src cmake
   )
-  
+   
   (
     cd tools
     tar xf $srcdir/clang-$version.src.tar.?z 
@@ -42,39 +51,29 @@ prepbuilddir() {
     cp -r ../projects/libunwind/include/mach-o include/
     rm -r ../projects/libunwind
   )
-  
-  applypatch $srcdir/lfs64.patch
 }
 
 build() {
-  # We don't need our optimisations for small builds
   unset CFLAGS CXXFLAGS
-
-  # Set build targets
-  if [[ $arch = x86_64 ]] ; then
-    buildtarget='X86;AMDGPU;BPF'
-  elif [[ $arch = aarch64 ]] ; then
-    buildtarget="AArch64"
-  fi
   
   cd smbuild
-  cmake .. -G Ninja \
+  cmake .. -G Ninja -Wno-dev \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="" \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
     -DLLVM_BUILD_DOCS=OFF \
     -DLLVM_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
-    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
     -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=OFF \
     -DLLVM_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+    -DLLVM_INCLUDE_TESTS=OFF \
     -DLLVM_ENABLE_FFI=ON \
     -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON \
-    -DLLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON \
     -DLLVM_ENABLE_LIBEDIT=OFF \
-    -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="$buildtarget" \
-    -DLLVM_BINUTILS_INCDIR="/include" \
+    -DLLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON \
+    -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="$buildtargets" \
     -DLLVM_INCLUDE_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
     -DLLVM_INCLUDE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
-    -DLLVM_INSTALL_PREFIX="/bin" \
+    -DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON \
+    -DLLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB=ON \
     -DCLANG_RESOURCE_DIR="../lib/clang/$version"
 
   ninja $MAKEFLAGS
@@ -86,10 +85,10 @@ build() {
 }
 
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+93313c449a58f8f81a13231fd1e3168267bd504689fb5c6e9a0d8a99e3dfe0be68968f5614e00836808bd7a730121bc94f459ada8cf6cf010d13178a8446ae7e  libunwind-17.0.6.src.tar.lz
+8c313ba8f40015c10f6826bad5d7553ec1fc6c634b4a384789611f541bf210fd69fdd77f13a6bb8ee8fb2283d5a2c08dbbccf8603c7a2cec9904eb18c5fcc403  lld-17.0.6.src.tar.lz
+0eb60df337875c110dfac112f6bb4e7686919f09c8e007b77a9f6e0f723c31721f09902e7b8bed07acea00aa5c02e07e3aee756fdf0caf74f01c4f9488107bbf  llvm-17.0.6.src.tar.lz
+c2ca2124370ec43b9a2fa769aa5580f908453041450479d60458f03aa54e89604bd4225b5991cac0cb8c424cdb2e4e121b78e4175e591955f2fba2c3b0fd0851  install-prefix.patch
 "
diff --git a/base/mandoc/configure.local b/base/mandoc/configure.local
index 15b367b..858b8cb 100644
--- a/base/mandoc/configure.local
+++ b/base/mandoc/configure.local
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 PREFIX=""
-MANDIR="${PREFIX}/share/man"
-SBINDIR="${PREFIX}/bin"
-MANPATH_DEFAULT="${PREFIX}/share:${PREFIX}/share/man"
-MANPATH_BASE="${PREFIX}/share"
+INCLUDEDIR="/usr/include"
+LIBDIR="/usr/lib"
+SBINDIR="/bin"
+MANDIR="/usr/share/man"
+MANPATH_DEFAULT="/usr/share:/usr/share/man"
+MANPATH_BASE="/usr/share"
 UTF8_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8
 OSNAME="SMLinux"
 INSTALL_PROGRAM="install -m 0755"
diff --git a/base/mandoc/mandoc.SMBuild b/base/mandoc/mandoc.SMBuild
index e6c815a..f5e0b5c 100755
--- a/base/mandoc/mandoc.SMBuild
+++ b/base/mandoc/mandoc.SMBuild
@@ -25,20 +25,12 @@ prepbuilddir() {
 build() {
   cp $srcdir/configure.local configure.local
 
-  ./configure
+  ./configure --p
   make
-  make DESTDIR=$pkg PREFIX= LIBDIR=/lib base-install lib-install
+  make DESTDIR=$pkg base-install lib-install
 
   cp LICENSE $pkgdocs/
   
-  (
-    cd $pkg/bin
-    for i in apropos makewhatis man whatis ; do
-      rm "$pkg"/bin/"$i"
-      ln -sf mandoc "$pkg"/bin/"$i"
-    done
-  )
-
   mkfinalpkg
 }
 
diff --git a/base/nodejs/nodejs.SMBuild b/base/nodejs/nodejs.SMBuild
index 6657003..4fadfe8 100755
--- a/base/nodejs/nodejs.SMBuild
+++ b/base/nodejs/nodejs.SMBuild
@@ -4,20 +4,21 @@ version=18.14.2
 build=1sml
 homepage="https://nodejs.org/en/"
 desc="Asynchronous event-driven Javascript engine designed to build scalable network applications"
-requires="openssl"
+requires="openssl gyp"
+ignoreusrbin=1
 
 prepbuilddir() {
   mkandenterbuilddir
-  rm -rf node-v"$version"
+  rm -rf $app-$version
 
-  tar xf $srcdir/node-v"$version".tar.?z*
-  cd node-v"$version"
+  tar xf $srcdir/$app-$version.tar.?z*
+  cd $app-$version
   fixbuilddirpermissions
 }
 
 build() {
   ./configure \
-    --prefix=/ \
+    --prefix=/usr \
     --shared-zlib \
     --shared-openssl
 
@@ -30,5 +31,5 @@ build() {
 }
 
 sha512sums="
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+92ec5fe834e4574b312d2b8baacfe96fdf02becaf32c6dc8d4c667a782f67a53f5a23bc8b34ca9cf8e26fab782c4c39d23a5c17ac8336b4ce0079003267d96d2  nodejs-18.14.2.tar.lz
 "
diff --git a/base/xmlto/xmlto.SMBuild b/base/xmlto/xmlto.SMBuild
index 84f3ac1..42513e2 100755
--- a/base/xmlto/xmlto.SMBuild
+++ b/base/xmlto/xmlto.SMBuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: PktSurf <smlinux@pktsurf.in>
 app=xmlto
-version=0.0.28
+version=0.0.29
 build=1sml
 homepage="https://pagure.io/xmlto"
 download="https://releases.pagure.org/xmlto/xmlto-$version.tar.bz2"
@@ -14,11 +14,15 @@ prepbuilddir() {
   tar xf $srcdir/$app-$version.tar.?z*
   cd $app-$version
   fixbuilddirpermissions
+
+  touch NEWS README AUTHORS
+  autoreconf -vif
 }
 
 build() {
   ./configure \
-    --prefix=
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --bindir=/bin
 
   make
   make install DESTDIR=$pkg
@@ -29,5 +33,5 @@ build() {
 }
 
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-"
+991d65dc001d9b0144363ecc4ba57def79c440d80a2106b729484afbe3b4b3a027ae0f0073a6cc283d041fa067dc843c554938afabf1d86964ca7cf33a92cb38  xmlto-0.0.29.tar.lz
+"
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