Installation issues, Leopard Quad G5, 1.6.0 DMG

[Adrian Nier]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:

>> The better solution is to create a file called '.profile' in your  
>> home directory. In this file you specify additional directories  
>> that are to be scanned for executables and manual entries. The  
>> MacPorts installation fails to create this file, so you have to  
>> create it manually.
>
> Awesome.  Works like a charm on my other mac.  Why doesn't the .DMG  
> installer do this?
>
> No "non compiler friendly" user is going to be able to get up and  
> running without this information.

What has been written to the .profile file has little to do with  
compilation. This is a facility of the shell to make it easier for  
users to run commands. Instead of typing the full path you can type  
just the name of the executable you wish to run.

If the operating system wouldn't have the same settings for  
directories like /bin/ or /usr/sbin/ then you would have to type /bin/ 
ls to get a directory listing and /usr/sbin/diskutil to run the  
command line version of Disk Utility.


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