gcc44 installs correctly but default gcc is still used

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 23, 2012, at 5:19 p.m., Josie Reinhardt wrote:

> Still at least now /opt/local/bin are in front...  but where did the
> other stuff come from???


The system-level shell startup files (/etc/{profile,zshenv,csh.login}) execute the /usr/libexec/path_helper utility, which sets the initial ${PATH}.

When constructing ${PATH}, path_helper consults the file /etc/paths and the contents of /etc/paths.d/.

Try "man path_helper" for more.

vq