Re: Broken Pipe
Re: Broken Pipe
- Subject: Re: Broken Pipe
- From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:02:19 -0700
On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Giacomo Monari wrote:
In your opinion I still have to uninstall and reinstall the Xcode
Tools because those directories are missing?
(Note that the position of my gnuplot is pretty strange: it isn't
in /usr/bin but in /sw/bin because I installed it with Fink...)
As others have pointed out, you're not actually missing anything, so
no, a reinstall is not needed.
I just noticed this other doubt, though, about fink's stuff being in /
sw/bin. That's not "pretty strange," in fact it's pretty normal.
Not only is that where fink always puts stuff (and we all have fink
stuff here or there, or MacPorts stuff that goes into /opt/, or
something like that). Unix and Unix-like systems (like OS X) expect
that sort of behavior. The variable PATH that we've been talking
about is one of the mechanisms for handling this.
What appears to have happened in your case is that the gnuplot
package botched its handling of PATH. It added itself to PATH, which
it's entitled and expected to do, but it also somehow emptied out all
the rest of your entries, which it most definitely ought not to do.
It ought, rather, to have done something automatically that was
rather like what I coached you to do by hand.
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