port PATH handling

[Kevin Ballard]

Ah. Well, since port allows you to override specific variables using  
a variable=value syntax at the end of the command line, you could try  
setting bindir yourself there.

On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>>> Does port(1) clean out $PATH ??
>
> yes.
>
>> If you look at /opt/local/etc/ports/ports.conf, at the bottom is a  
>> list of environment variables to keep. You may want to try setting  
>> that to PATH.
>
> That won't work.
>
> macports' PATH is set to "${prefix}/bin:${prefix}/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/ 
> usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin" unless 'binpath' is set in the  
> ports.conf file.
>
> (see darwinports1.0/darwinports.tcl line 415 and darwinports1.0/ 
> portconf.c line 49)

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