problem with multiple macports installations

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Tue Dec 18 11:15:43 PST 2007


On Dec 18, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Daniel Oberhoff wrote:
>> The macoprt.conf files in /opt/local and and /opt/local64 only  
>> reference /opt/local and /opt/local64 respectively, so this seems  
>> correct.
>
> did you also check to make sure you don't have a conf file in  
> ~/.macports that could be over-riding it?
>
>> Hmm, so how does the port command actually know where it's tree  
>> lives?
>> Is it hardcoded? Or does the installation put a tag somewhere on  
>> the system?
>
> ${prefix} is set when macports is installed and it's put in that  
> conf file.


it's also populated in the macports_autoconf.tcl file.

if you didn't build with --with-tclpackage set so that your two  
installs have separate package directories, that could be causing your  
problem.
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