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