On Jul 21, 2012, at 04:53, Barrie Stott wrote: > > On 20 Jul 2012, at 16:08, Clemens Lang wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:56:24AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> I am still not sure what to change or how to verify it was successful. >>> In Lion's Terminal.app, I have opened Preferences -> Settings -> >>> Shell, checked the "Run command" box, and filled in >>> "/opt/local/bin/bash -l". The "Run inside shell" checkbox is not >>> checked. The bash port is installed. If I open a new terminal window >>> and type "echo $SHELL" it still prints "/bin/bash". Is that a correct >>> way to verify that these steps were not successful? What else should I >>> be doing? > >> Try echo $BASH_VERSION. It should print something along the line of >> 4.2.something. If it doesn't you're not using MacPorts bash. > > I upgraded my system this morning and I now have: > bash @4.2.29_0+universal (active) > bash-completion @2.0_1 (active) > > I ran the following: > > gbs:~ $ echo $BASH_VERSION > 3.2.48(1)-release > gbs:~ $ /bin/bash --version > GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0) > gbs:~ $ which bash > /opt/local/bin/bash > gbs:~ $ bash --version > GNU bash, version 4.2.29(2)-release (i386-apple-darwin10.8.0) > > The results disagree with what Clemens said.
But have you actually followed the instructions from earlier in this thread about how to change your shell from /bin/bash to /opt/local/bin/bash? You need to do that first. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users