Setting environnement variable in a port

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-7-26 23:08 , Sébastien Maret wrote:
> 
> Le 26 juil. 2011 à 15:05, Joshua Root a écrit :
> 
>> On 2011-7-26 22:32 , Sébastien Maret wrote:
>>> I am working on a port that requires setting a few environnement
>>> variable at run time. How can this be done?
>>
>> Depends on which variables and in which phase. You can directly set
>> configure.env, build.env etc., which should be a list of NAME=value,
>> plus the configure phase has a lot of options that set one specific
>> environment variable. Docs:
>>
>> <http://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.phases.html#reference.phases.configure>
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> I need to set variables at run time, not during the port phases. For example, the port must set the PYTHONPATH variable so that the Python modules installed by the port can be imported in a Python session.

My first instinct is that you're probably doing it wrong. Why can't you
install the module where python will find it automatically?

- Josh