Cannot open the message catalog "man" for locale

[Christian Voelker]

Hello,

I just ran into this problem and found it reported in bug #13444
and described in the docs. So I was able to solve it for me.
Thnaks for that so far. I still believe that it is wrong to
close the bug because there is a howto that helps to fix the
problem manually. I am using Macports 1.60.

Let me describe my installation and explain my conclusions from
that. There are two misconceptions in copying a static .profile
into the users directory. First, not everybody is using bash.
My account exists from times before Tiger, I still use tcsh,
I am still happy with it and I have no reason to change it.
The script should care for the users preferred shell.

Second and even more important, the script should take care
for the prefix as found in macports.conf. I always found it
nasty to have a folder following common unix semantics in
my initial Finder view. The proper place for Macports seems
to be /Library/Macports for me. It was easy to change this
at install time and I did not have problems with this for
a long time now (over a year now I think - at least sometime
in the past Macports was broken with regard to that but it
was fixed before I found out how to help myself - Thanks.)
The prefix is also no hack but an option given by the system.
As such, the users choice should be respected at all times.
Even if I were to use bash as my shell, the content of the
static .profile file would have turned out to be plain wrong.

Bye, Christian