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[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 10, 2009, at 18:49, Thomas De Contes wrote:

> basic users are expected to compile ports but not MacPorts itself,  
> they are expected to install binaries of MacPorts itself :-)
> sorry, i forgot it :-)

Well, a user who types "sudo port selfupdate" causes MacPorts to  
build itself from source...


>> Having MacPorts installation with a different prefix in PATH during
>> configure might fail anyway if certain ports are installed (e.g.  
>> tcl).
>> Therefore, use a clean environment with the system's default PATH  
>> if you
>> don't want to use MacPorts for that.
>
> well, i need to compile MacPorts because i don't want to give it  
> root rights

Same here.


> it's not very constraining,
> just, sometimes i have tinny problems, and in general there is a  
> solution :-)
>
>
> but it may be very annoying, if the installation of some ports  
> avoids to rebuild MacPorts :-(
>
> is there a simple way to use the system's default PATH, just for  
> the time to build MacPorts ?

Just do it! Run

export PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"

before you run the configure, make and make install commands. That's  
what I do. Then close the Terminal window to get your previous PATH  
back.