Sorry, still confused here, but I'm wondering if I've hit on something here. Note these instructions from the web site:
If you are using Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther", Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" or a Bourne shell (bash, zsh), add the following line to your ~/.profile:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
If you are using Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" or a C shell (tcsh), add the following line to your ~/.cshrc:
set path=($path /opt/local/bin)
Since Tiger (OS10.4) includes a tcsh shell rather than the old bash shell, should this edit cure the problem? I'm reluctant to edit this file before I know because it relates to my Fink setup and I'm a novice. Thanks. On Dec 29, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Mark Duling wrote:
Merton Campbell Crockett <m.c.crockett@adelphia.net> on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 3:07 PM -0800 wrote:
I ran into similar problems without Fink being installed. I found that I had to change the file name to ~./.bash_profile to get consistent results. Also, as I tend to use an X Terminal instead of the Apple Terminal, I discovered that I needed to add the "-ls" switch to the ~./.xinitrc file and the X11 Terminal application.
Do you have multiple shell profiles? In the MacPorts install instructions after editing the .profile, I put this in the Important Notes:
Other profile files may conflict with ~./profile and should be removed, so remove any occurrances of these files: • ~/.bash_login • ~/.bash_profile
That was my stab at anticipating problems. I'm not entirely sure it is correct, but it seems like a bad idea to have more than one and I'm not sure the order of precedence if these files are present in addition to ~/.profile.
Mark