'No manual entry for port'

[Ian Wadham]

On 03/05/2013, at 9:31 AM, Adam Neather wrote:
> Cheers much. For some reason, the setenv command worked this time;
> where as before it didn't. The ~/.tcshrc file has been created (as
> both of the open -e commands listed above reported no such file) and
> port is working correctly. Huzzah!

Something is mystifying me about this discussion.  Am I missing
something or has something in MacPorts changed?

As I understand Unix-like systems, there are three scripts that can
operate when you are logging in: .login, .profile and .<shellname>rc.
Also, that there is a convention that these scripts should be compatible
with the Bourne Shell, or nowadays "bash", the Bourne-again Shell.

When I started with MacPorts about two years ago, I was surprised
to find that it put its login-time commands into .profile and there they
still are.  In Linux and Unix I would have put such commands in .bashrc
or, back in the day, .kshrc.

I have followed along with what I took to be the Apple convention
and put lots of other stuff into .profile rather than .bashrc (e.g. several
command aliases).

I got the impression, too, that .bashrc does not run when you start
an Apple Terminal window, but only when you manually start a new
"bash" shell.

Am I doing things wrong?  Maybe I missed something in the flurry
of setting up a new system and MacPorts two years ago.

Cheers, Ian W.