From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@macports.org>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATH reordered when running zsh inside screen on Mac OS X Mountain Lion and MacPorts
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:24:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADdV=Mt-LRcFJ18dxEKt=4BtqPXk+2qF4gyBCQMW4=tPYj3eHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C31BAB17-A3D5-4CC1-8ADD-4D1CFF95E47F@macports.org>
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@macports.org> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:08 AM, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
>> I figured out what the problem was. /etc/zshenv on Mac OS X Mountain Lion calls a utility called path_helper.
> I agree that /etc/zprofile would be a better place to set ${PATH}, but you would still run into the issue because terminal multiplexers usually run login shells. I previously encountered it under tmux.
Not screen, not the way I have it configured, anyway. Tmux seems to
force logged in terminals. I guess one could check SHLVL or something
like that.
> The real problem is that /usr/libexec/path_helper alters ${PATH} even if ${PATH} already contains the entries it wants to add. In this case, it moves the entries to the beginning of ${PATH} instead of just leaving it as is.
Yes, precisely.
> The old zsh-devel port did use --enable-etcdir in its configure phase. For the reason given by Phil, I chose not to carry this over to the zsh port when I assumed maintenance of both and obsoleted zsh-devel.
Aha, that explains why it occured only recently.
Thank you for filling in the details!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-29 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-28 9:15 Nikolai Weibull
2013-01-28 9:33 ` rahul
2013-01-28 10:08 ` Nikolai Weibull
2013-01-28 20:22 ` Phil Pennock
2013-01-28 22:44 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2013-01-29 6:21 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2013-01-29 8:08 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2013-01-29 11:25 ` Nikolai Weibull
2013-01-29 11:24 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2013-01-28 9:58 ` Peter Stephenson
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