Macports Install 1.6: cshrc shell not working

List Acct listacct at anthrotech.com
Tue Dec 9 11:48:01 PST 2008


Hello,

I read that ticket and assumed  it was a problem with 1.7rc1 based in  
the title of the ticket.

macports 1.7rc1 writes path variable to .tcshrc even when a .cshrc is  
present
Another Sys Admin and I modified the existing .tcshrc file to no   
avail. There was no .cshrc file, so I may try doing that next.

But again, I thought this was a problem with the new RC version of  
Macports, _not_ 1.6 stable, which is what I installed.

Thanks,
Eliot Lee

On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> List Acct wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Yesterday I installed Macports 1.6 in a Powerbook running Leopard  
>> 10.5.5
>> in one of our user's computers,  so that I could install ImageMagick
>> more easily.
>>
>> After installing it, her cshrc shell environment was hosed.
>>
>> When she typed  in echo $PATH, the Macports directory was returned.
>>
>> /opt/local/bin
>>
>> which had been added in her .bash_profile file, but she is not  
>> using bash.
>>
>> So, the temporary fix was to create a shell script that sets
>> environmental variables.
>>
>> How do I permanently fix this problem without uninstalling Macports?
>
> Uninstalling MacPorts won't help (if you follow the usual  
> instructions),
> this is a shell configuration file issue. It sounds similar to what  
> was
> reported in this ticket: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17588>
>
>> From a quick glance at the man page, it doesn't appear that tcsh will
> read .bash_profile, so that won't be the problem. If it's the same
> problem as in the ticket, a new .tcshrc will have been created with  
> the
> MacPorts environment stuff, thus causing .cshrc to be ignored. The
> solution would thus be to combine .tcshc and .cshrc into one file.
>
> - Josh

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