Path Out of Control

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Apr 2, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 21:00, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> The code that changes your .profile hasn't really changed in a long time. It should not have added to your .profile if the path was already set properly.
> 
> The code the installer runs to set up your .profile is here, by the way:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight?rev=92903#L241
> 
> If you can see anything wrong in the code that might account for this problem, please let us know.

MacPorts installer could do something like this and ports that need to effect the users ENV could drop files in $MP_PREFIX/etc/macports/profile.d/:
$ tail -n1 ~/.bash_profile:
. /opt/local/etc/macports/profile
$
$ cat /opt/local/etc/macports:
export MP_PREFIX=/opt/local
if [ -z "${OLDPATH}" ]; then
    export OLDPATH=$PATH
fi
if [ -z "${OLDMANPATH}" ]; then
    export OLDMANPATH=$MANPATH
fi
export PATH=$MP_PREFIX/bin:$MP_PREFIX/sbin:$OLDPATH
export MANPATH=$MP_PREFIX/share/man:$OLDMANPATH
. $MP_PREFIX/etc/macports/profile.d/*
$
$ cat /opt/local/etc/macports/profile.d/apache2:
export PATH=$MP_PREFIX/apache2/bin:$PATH


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)