Added support in MacPorts base to set PATH and MANPATH automatically in Leopard

[Kevin Van Vechten]

I as understand it, appending /opt/local/bin to the path works fine at  
_runtime_ but may be insufficient at _build time_.

It seems to me that MacPorts should explicitly set the path to what's  
needed at build time (i.e. prepend $prefix to PATH) ... as the PATH  
might not even include /opt/local at all.

- Kevin

On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Kirk Kelsey wrote:

>
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:43 PM, James Berry wrote:
>> I think it's a question for the group in general: which is the best  
>> approach? The range of choices we have is basically to pick from  
>> the following menu:
>>
>> 	- Install a file into /etc/manpaths.d/
>> 	- Install a file into /etc/paths.d/
>> 	- Munge ~/.profile to munge MANPATH
>> 	- Munge ~/.profile to munge PATH
>
>
> was
> 	- Munge /etc/[man]paths
>
> ruled out? It has the advantage of letting us put /opt/local/ 
> {bin,man} in the [MAN]PATH where we want it and being much easier to  
> work with than shell rc/profile files.
>
>
> Kirk
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