Strange error

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 15, 2007, at 10:58, James Berry wrote:

> 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.

Just wanted to confirm with you that yes, this does work. Thanks, James!