Macports stopped working after xcode 4.6 upgrade

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> (2013-02-20 09:16:27 UTC)]

> On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:09 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche at math.ntnu.no> wrote:
> 
> > True. If that is what you want, you can tack the directories onto the front of /etc/paths instead. Not sure if either will survive a system upgrade, though. But on the other hand, it will work for all users on the machine.
> 
> For the curious. […]

Argh. So that doesn't work either, then. path_helper starts with the current PATH, then append pathnames from /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d/* excepting, presumably, patnames that have already been included – so you can't prepend a pathname to PATH this way. Good to know. (Should this be in the FAQ?)

- Harald