On Jun 10, 2009, at 18:49, Thomas De Contes wrote:
basic users are expected to compile ports but not MacPorts itself,
they are expected to install binaries of MacPorts itself :-)
sorry, i forgot it :-)
Well, a user who types "sudo port selfupdate" causes MacPorts to
build itself from source...
Having MacPorts installation with a different prefix in PATH during
configure might fail anyway if certain ports are installed (e.g.
tcl).
Therefore, use a clean environment with the system's default PATH
if you
don't want to use MacPorts for that.
well, i need to compile MacPorts because i don't want to give it
root rights
Same here.
it's not very constraining,
just, sometimes i have tinny problems, and in general there is a
solution :-)
but it may be very annoying, if the installation of some ports
avoids to rebuild MacPorts :-(
is there a simple way to use the system's default PATH, just for
the time to build MacPorts ?
Just do it! Run
export PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
before you run the configure, make and make install commands. That's
what I do. Then close the Terminal window to get your previous PATH
back.
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