+ Brandon Allbery allb...@kf8nh.com:
If you run vi and type :!ls, vi will spawn a noninteractive shell to
run ls. Noninteractive shells are also used by make, port, and
numerous other commands.
Note, however, that these invoke /bin/sh and not bash. Even if /bin/sh
is bash, it will behave
Thank you! comments below...
On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Oct 1, 2009, at 17:41 , Scott Haneda wrote:
I need to understand this once and for all, there is varying info
on this, the bash man page is verbose and not entirely clear.
When bash is invoked as an
First, a general question about how the outdated ports are sorted - are they
sorted alphabetically or is there a dependency heirarchy (or tree) that is
searched to identify the order for upgrade?
Now, is it possible to have 'port update outdated' continue after a build
failure? Below is an
Hello,
I am sorry. I left out ALL the important information.
I am running Leopard on a PowerBook G4; Xcode 3.1.2; macports 1.8.1.
port uninstall was working just fine until 1 Oct. That is when I performed a
selfupdate to 1.8.1 and then upgraded all my outdated ports.
After the upgrade, I
Here is my PATH as reported by ENV
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/apache2/bin:/Users/me/
bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
Is this pretty standard, to have to add the {prefix}/apache2/bin to
your PATH?
Take this for example:
$which mysql5
On Oct 2, 2009, at 22:20 , Scott Haneda wrote:
Is this pretty standard, to have to add the {prefix}/apache2/bin to
your PATH?
Standard Apache / Apache2 behavior, yes, as distinct from other
programs. My understanding is that most of the Apache binaries aren't
particularly useful on
On Oct 2, 2009, at 16:14 , Scott Haneda wrote:
What specifically is an environment setting? This means PATH would
be a bad thing to have in .bashrc? What I do is work in my user
account, I have aliases, and other helper things as well as the PATH
adjustments to MacPorts.
Anything you
You might want to read the first several chapters of Kernighan and
Pike's _The Unix Programming Environment_; the sections about shell
programming will clarify quite a bit of what's going on with the
environment and various startup files, even though it predates bash.
--
brandon s. allbery
On Oct 2, 2009, at 14:49 , Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
+ Brandon Allbery allb...@kf8nh.com:
If you run vi and type :!ls, vi will spawn a noninteractive shell to
run ls. Noninteractive shells are also used by make, port, and
numerous other commands.
Note, however, that these invoke /bin/sh and
