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