Zsh on Solaris 2.6

Zsh on Solaris 2.6

[erlamarque]

Hi.

I have downloaded the Zsh shell that I have founded on your website
(http://chronos.cs.msu.su/).
the file I have donwloaded is :

-rw-r--r--   1 m091712  staff     976037 Dec 26 13:57 zsh-3.1.9g-pkg.tgz


I have done a pkgadd -d . as root and the installation was fine.

I am running a Solaris 2.6 on E450 Sun microsystems computer.

# pkginfo -l zsh
   PKGINST:  zsh
      NAME:  The Z shell
  CATEGORY:  utility
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  3.1.9g
   BASEDIR:  /usr/local
    VENDOR:  zsh.org
    PSTAMP:  07thJul00
  INSTDATE:  Dec 26 2001 14:18
     EMAIL:  frbrgeorge@intelligencia.com
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:    398 installed pathnames
                 4 shared pathnames
                 1 linked files
                12 directories
                42 executables
              5715 blocks used (approx)

Unfortunately, when i try to run that shell, i obtain the following error.

# /usr/local/bin/zsh
ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/zsh: fatal: libcurses.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed.

There is no Readme file and i have'nt see anything on your website like bugs reports in the ZSH FAQ or on the website : http://www.zsh.org

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Futher more, I have found the library libcurses.so.1located in the directory /usr/xpg4/lib

# cd /usr

# find . -name libcurses.so.1
./xpg4/lib/libcurses.so.1

So i have added this directory to my LD_LIBARY_PATH

m091712@qvgweb2 pts/7 /export/home/m091712% echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/ucblib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/xpg4/lib

and then I obtain this following error:

m091712@qvgweb2 pts/7 /export/home/m091712% zsh
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

Do you have some explanation, or is the package zsh-3.1.9g-pkg.tgz,  the right one to install ZSH Shell on a Sun computer under Solaris 2.6 ?

Thanks a lot.

Cordialement,

     Lamarque Eric  (DI.MD / BD - Air France - Vilgénis)

     Tél  : 01 64 4 (7 76 03)
     Email     : erlamarque@airfrance.fr

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Re: Zsh on Solaris 2.6

[Clint Adams]

> I have downloaded the Zsh shell that I have founded on your website
> (http://chronos.cs.msu.su/).
> the file I have donwloaded is :
> # /usr/local/bin/zsh
> 
> m091712@qvgweb2 pts/7 /export/home/m091712% zsh
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> 
> Do you have some explanation, or is the package zsh-3.1.9g-pkg.tgz,  the right one to install ZSH Shell on a Sun computer under Solaris 2.6 ?

I have no idea which libcurses the binary in question was linked
against, but 3.1.9 is a bit old.

A quick search didn't reveal any modern zsh packages for Solaris 2.6, so
I recommend grabbing the source for zsh 4.0.4 (available at
ftp://ftp.zsh.org/), and doing the following once you've unpacked and
entered the source directory:

./configure
make
mkdir ../MYzsh
make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/../MYzsh
cd ../MYzsh
mv usr/local/* .
rmdir usr/local usr
(echo "i pkginfo=myinfo" ; find . | pkgproto | awk '{$5="root";$6="bin";print}') >prototype
cat >myinfo <<EOF
PKG="MYzsh"
NAME="Z-Shell"
VERSION="4.0.4"
ARCH="sparc"
VENDOR="My Company"
EMAIL="me@mycompany.com"
CATEGORY="shells"
BASEDIR="/usr/local"
EOF
pkgmk -r .

That was off the top of my head, so it may need some tweaking, but it
might give you a usable zsh package.

Re: Zsh on Solaris 2.6

[Will Yardley]

erlamarque@airfrance.fr wrote:
> 
> I have downloaded the Zsh shell that I have founded on your website
> (http://chronos.cs.msu.su/).
> the file I have donwloaded is :
> 
[...] 
> Unfortunately, when i try to run that shell, i obtain the following error.
> 
> # /usr/local/bin/zsh
> ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/zsh: fatal: libcurses.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
> Killed.

it looks like the package requires ncurses shared libraries, so you
might either look for a statically compiled package, or you might
install a package which provides the ncurses libraries.  you might check
the sunfreeware site for this.

sun has a vendor supplied zsh package with solaris 8, but i don't know
if there's one for the version of solaris you're running. it didn't look
like there was a zsh package on the sunfreeware site for 2.6 either.

w