[MacPorts] #45235: Missing MacPorts specific paths in $PATH

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Oct 1, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Erik Andreas Cayré <erik at avalonia.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Den 01/10/2014 kl. 22.48 skrev Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
> 
>>>> After some research, I still can't locate the correct place to remedy the
>>>> missing paths problem.
>>>> I know I can add the paths with the EXPORT command, but I would like to
>>>> learn the 'correct' place where "/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:" should
>>>> be located.
>> 
>> The correct place is your shell startup file.
>> 
>> If you're using bash, that might be ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile.
> 
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> I understand this is not really a MacPorts problem, but I'll ask anyway:)
> 
> bash-3.2# cat ~/.profile 
> 
> # MacPorts Installer addition on 2013-12-06_at_09:58:25: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
> export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
> # Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.
> 
> bash-3.2# echo $PATH
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/lib/mysql55/bin
> 
> Do you have any idea why the entry in .profile is not actually present in $PATH ?

Possibly because you have a file called .bash_profile in the same directory? If so, bash will prefer to use that.