Strange error

[James Berry]

On May 14, 2007, at 11:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On May 13, 2007, at 09:54, Randall Wood wrote:
>
>> couldn't find HOME environment variable to expand path
>>     while executing
>> "file mkdir $macports_user_dir"
>>     (procedure "dportinit" line 45)
>>     invoked from within
>> "dportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system,  
>> couldn't find HOME environment variable to expand path
>
> Sigh... Now I'm experiencing this error as well, when running port  
> from a PHP script through my web server:

> If I manually create /Library/WebServer/.macports and set it owned  
> by www, then MacPorts relents. But I'd rather not have to do that.  
> I think I would prefer that if the HOME environment variable is not  
> set, that MacPorts not complain about it, and learn to live without  
> a ~/.macports directory. There's nothing in it anyway, and my PHP  
> script used to work just fine in previous versions of MacPorts.

Ryan and Randall,

I checked in some code this morning that should only try to use or  
create that directory if HOME is defined. Please check it out and  
give feedback. r25177.

James