On Saturday December 03 2016 12:47:47 Joshua Root wrote: Hi,
>This was wrong all along. The enclosing braces on >{${nprefix} ${macports::prefix}} >mean that no substitution will happen, so you're mapping between those >literal strings. You want [list ${nprefix} ${macports::prefix}] instead. Doh, yes, that fits with what I've been picking up recently. Any idea why it worked then? (Or should I go through my Time Machine backups to see if in fact I was using the result of some other operation?) You've probably realised this is part of a local fix to let `port provides` cope with a symlinked prefix, and somehow that fix worked. R