port diagnose bug

[Mark Bestley]

On 01/02/2017 21:06, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org
> <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org>> wrote:
>
>     It looks like the port diagnose code assumes the path is
>     colon-separated, but your fish shell uses spaces to delimit the
>     different paths. I guess MacPorts would have to check what shell
>     you're using, and then know how to parse each type of shell's idea
>     of how the list of paths is represented.
>
>
> The $PATH that goes into the environment must be colon separated, or a
> LOT of stuff will mishandle it. Including the likes of
> execlp()/execvp(). (Shells should handle this; after all, csh's $path is
> space separated / a csh list, but $PATH in the environment is correctly
> colon separated.)
>

/usr/bin/env shows PATH = to a colon delimited string

So I am not sure that fish is the only thing wrong here


Mark