Added support in MacPorts base to set PATH and MANPATH automatically in Leopard

[Randall Wood]

On 29 Nov 2007, at 20:34, Kevin Van Vechten wrote:

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> On Nov 29, 2007, at 4:45 PM, James Berry wrote:
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>> Hey Kevin,
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Kevin Van Vechten wrote:
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>>> I as understand it, appending /opt/local/bin to the path works  
>>> fine at _runtime_ but may be insufficient at _build time_.
>>
>> So you're saying that if we append prefix to the path we might  
>> have build issues that we wouldn't have if we prepend. That's a  
>> good argument.
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> No, I'm saying that for interactive use it usually doesn't matter  
> that /opt/local is appended.  But when building new Ports, we  
> probably do want /opt/local first in the path -- however MacPorts  
> should probably prepend $prefix to PATH during builds regardless of  
> whether path_helper is used or not.

If I understand things correctly, port sets its own internal path  
environment, completely ignoring the user's environment.


Randall Wood
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