Base seems to inherit settings from zsh shell, causing configure scripts to fail

[dave@…]

When trying to upgrade my old ports, the upgrade of ncursesw kept failing. I finally realized it was due to me using zsh, and sudo to install the port, like this:

sudo port upgrade outdated

When I switched to bash, things worked fine:

sudo bash --login port upgrade outdated.

Below are my logs

--> Fetching apr ---> Attempting to fetch apr-1.3.3.tar.bz2 from ​http://www.apache.org/dist/apr ---> Verifying checksum(s) for apr ---> Extracting apr ---> Configuring apr ---> Building apr with target all ---> Staging apr into destroot ---> Deactivating apr 1.3.2_0+darwin_9 ---> Installing apr 1.3.3_0 ---> Activating apr 1.3.3_0 ---> Cleaning apr ---> Fetching pkgconfig ---> Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig ---> Extracting pkgconfig ---> Configuring pkgconfig ---> Building pkgconfig with target all ---> Staging pkgconfig into destroot ---> Deactivating pkgconfig 0.23_0 ---> Installing pkgconfig 0.23_1 ---> Activating pkgconfig 0.23_1 ---> Cleaning pkgconfig ---> Fetching ncursesw ---> Attempting to fetch ncurses-5.7.tar.gz from ​http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses ---> Verifying checksum(s) for ncursesw ---> Extracting ncursesw ---> Configuring ncursesw Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.7" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-widec --disable-rpath --with-shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-safe-sprintf --enable-sigwinch --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 1 Command output: Configuring for darwin9.5.0 checking for prefix... /opt/local checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for executable suffix... checking for object suffix... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 accepts -g... yes checking version of /usr/bin/gcc-4.0... 4.0.1 checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/cpp-4.0 checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 needs -traditional... no checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 understands -c and -o together... yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 option to accept ANSI C... -DCC_HAS_PROTOS checking for ldconfig... no checking if you want to ensure bool is consistent with C++... yes checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether /usr/bin/g++-4.0 accepts -g... yes checking version of g++... 4.0.1 checking if you want to build C++ binding and demo... yes checking if you want to build with Ada95... no checking if you want to build programs such as tic... yes checking if you wish to install curses.h... yes checking for mawk... (cached) no checking for gawk... (cached) no checking for nawk... (cached) no checking for awk... (cached) no configure: error: No awk program found

Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 ---> Fetching ncurses ---> Verifying checksum(s) for ncurses ---> Extracting ncurses ---> Configuring ncurses Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncurses/work/ncurses-5.7" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-shared --disable-rpath --without-debug --without-ada --enable-safe-sprintf --enable-sigwinch --without-progs --mandir=/opt/local/share/delete-me " returned error 1 Command output: Configuring for darwin9.5.0 checking for prefix... /opt/local checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for executable suffix... checking for object suffix... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 accepts -g... yes checking version of /usr/bin/gcc-4.0... 4.0.1 checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/cpp-4.0 checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 needs -traditional... no checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 understands -c and -o together... yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 option to accept ANSI C... -DCC_HAS_PROTOS checking for ldconfig... no checking if you want to ensure bool is consistent with C++... yes checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether /usr/bin/g++-4.0 accepts -g... yes checking version of g++... 4.0.1 checking if you want to build C++ binding and demo... yes checking if you want to build with Ada95... no checking if you want to build programs such as tic... no checking if you wish to install curses.h... yes checking for mawk... (cached) no checking for gawk... (cached) no checking for nawk... (cached) no checking for awk... (cached) no configure: error: No awk program found

Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 ---> Fetching glib2 ---> Attempting to fetch glib-2.18.3.tar.bz2 from ​http://mandril.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/gnome.org/sources/glib/2.18/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for glib2 ---> Extracting glib2 ---> Applying patches to glib2 ---> Configuring glib2 ^{C 1002:1-dfrascon@daves-macbook ~/work % sudo bash --login root@daves-macbook Work # port upgrade outdated ---> Configuring ncursesw ---> Building ncursesw with target all ---> Staging ncursesw into destroot ---> Deactivating ncursesw 5.6_1 ---> Installing ncursesw 5.7_0 ---> Activating ncursesw 5.7_0 ---> Cleaning ncursesw ---> Configuring ncurses ---> Building ncurses with target all ---> Staging ncurses into destroot ---> Deactivating ncurses 5.6_0 ---> Installing ncurses 5.7_0 ---> Activating ncurses 5.7_0 ---> Cleaning ncurses ---> Configuring glib2 ---> Building glib2 with target all ---> Staging glib2 into destroot ---> Deactivating glib2 2.16.5_0+darwin_9 ---> Installing glib2 2.18.3_0+darwin_9 ---> Activating glib2 2.18.3_0+darwin_9 ---> Cleaning glib2 ---> Fetching atk ---> Attempting to fetch atk-1.24.0.tar.bz2 from ​http://mandril.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/gnome.org/sources/atk/1.24/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for atk ---> Extracting atk ---> Configuring atk ---> Building atk with target all ---> Staging atk into destroot ---> Deactivating atk 1.22.0_1 ---> Installing atk 1.24.0_0 ---> Activating atk 1.24.0_0}