Problem using MacPorts bash in MacOS Terminal

Ryan Carsten Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Nov 29 05:44:58 UTC 2024


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On Nov 28, 2024, at 23:36, Steve Schow wrote:

> Thanks both of you for responding.  
> 
> So any idea what kind of work around for this? Or theory about what is causing it?  I hear you about PATH not being the reason.
> 
> Like I said, when I run bash directly..the problem doesn’t happen.  It’s only when /opt/local/bin/bash is being used as the initial shell to load in Terminal.app.

The bug report I referred you to explains why it happens and the last comment currently in that report points to a bash commit that fixes it. We would either need to update the bash port to a version that includes the fix or backport the fix.


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