That cleared it up. Thanks. On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 2:28 AM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote:
> On 2017-8-5 06:46 , Umesh Singla wrote: > >> On a side note, I didn't get this part: >> >> The user installing the port is not necessarily the one that will >> use it. >> > > Suppose a port is built on the buildbot. The user is 'buildbot' and so the > value of $user_home will be something like '/Users/buildbot'. An end user > then installs the port on their system. The value of $user_home will be > different, for example '/Users/steve'. So if anything involving the value > of $user_home ended up in the binary archive, it is wrong on the user's > system. > > - Josh >