macport's oddity

[Jeremy Lavergne]

MacPorts was already installed, so the path was already available.

The problem is that after a rehash of the path, the new binaries  
weren't available.

On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> Doesn't Fink source an "init.sh" file that modifies your path on the  
> fly?
>
> #test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh
>
> MacPorts doesn't do this, it simply adds /opt/local/bin to the $PATH  
> defined in your ~/.profile, which won't show up until a new Terminal  
> session is open.