What version is your system-tetex? 20010808-12 was commited yesterday and was supposed to deal with a MANPATH problem, according to the log message.
Looks like one bug was replaced by another one :-) There used to be the line
echo "setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:/usr/local/teTeX/man" >> %i/etc/profile.d/system-tetex.csh
This did not write the literal text "${MANPATH}" into the system-tetex.csh file, but its evaluation at the moment of the package compilation. The new version 20010808-12 contains
echo "setenv MANPATH \$MANPATH:/usr/local/teTeX/man" >> %i/etc/profile.d/system-tetex.csh
This avoids evaluation, but forgets the curly braces. Hence the error message Edward was seeing. The correct version would have both backslash and braces.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 09:21 AM, Edward Thome wrote:
Hi.
I just updated my system-tetex (running the most current fink, OS 10.2.8,using tsch). Immediately upon opening an xterm/Terminal window, I got the error Bad : modifier in $ (/). and my ~/.cshrc file failed to load. I discovered that the culprit was the line "source /sw/bin/init.csh" and upon commenting out various segments of that file one-by-one, I found that the error occurred when the file /sw/etc/profile.d/system-tetex.csh was being loaded. Upon commenting out lines there, I discovered that the problem in this file was the line setenv MANPATH $MANPATH:/usr/local/teTeX/man After doing some experimenting, I found that the problem seemed to be the ":/". If I left off either the colon or the slash, I did not get the error, but MANPATH was not set correctly. So, on a whim, I typed in setenv MANPATH $MANPATH\:/usr/local/teTeX/man instead. Not only did I not get the error, but 'echo $MANPATH' revealed that the MANPATH was written appropriately, and appropriately according to what the command was supposed to do.
Is this a tsch error, something strange about my computer, or ...? I've duplicated the problem and the solution on two computers now, my office and my home computer.
Regards, Ed
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