port PATH handling

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:24, Michael Sternberg wrote:

> I'm testing to set a fortran dependency for port netCDF (this is a  
> library which may be built with an optional fortran interface).  I  
> have difficulty convincing port(1) to find the fortran compiler in  
> $PATH.
>
> Trying to use a commercial compiler (intel fortran), I source its  
> dotfiles interactively (to augment $PATH etc.), then run:
>
> 	port -dk install netcdf +ifort
>
> This fails because "configure" when run under port claims it cannot  
> find the fortran compiler.  However, when I run the exact same  
> command manually (as root), it succeeds (diff attached).
>
> Does port(1) clean out $PATH ??

I don't know about any of that.


> brahms:/opt/local root# port --version
> MacPorts 1.400
>
> [Really?  I pulled the svn src version for port and the dports tree  
> because I cannot get rsync updates through a firewall.  Did I shoot  
> myself in the foot?]

1.320 is the most recent released version of MacPorts. There's no  
need to check out and build the source code for the entire MacPorts  
trunk from Subversion just to avoid rsync updates. Just install  
MacPorts normally by downloading the DarwinPorts-1.3.1 disk image.  
Then edit /opt/local/etc/ports/sources.conf. Comment out (put a "#"  
in front of) the line "rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports"  
and add a line pointing to a place on your hard drive where you will  
check out the port tree with Subversion. For example, on my system, I  
added the line "file:///Users/rschmidt/dports". To check this out  
initially, I typed "svn checkout http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/ 
macports/trunk/dports ~/dports". Now, to update it, instead of "sudo  
port sync", I use "svn up ~/dports".

To update to 1.3.2 (a.k.a. 1.320) you would need to do a "sudo port  
selfupdate" and admittedly I'm not sure if that also requires rsync.  
If it does, then that's of course a problem again.

You could also have downloaded and built the 1.3.2 source code from  
http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/downloads/ 
DarwinPorts-1.3.2/ or http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/ 
tags/release_1_3_2/base/ and then configured sources.conf as detailed  
above.