Re: installing zsh questions

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Francisco Borges wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Two possibly very silly questions about installing zsh locally:
> (BTW I'm running Debian "stable")
> 
> 1. To make help files for run-help I used:
> 
> % man -m /usr/local/man zshall | colcrt - | \
>   perl ~/sys/zsh/zsh-4.3.1/Util/helpfiles
> 
> But this created files like:
> 
> A
> On
> By
> But
> No
> [etc]

I don't quite understand how this ever worked...  the exit condition
when parsing zshall doesn't appear to be in the right place.  It
may have been caused by a knock-on effect of another change.  The
following seems to do the right thing, anyway.  The change to the
position of the test is the fix to the problem you're noticing; the
change to the test itself is explained by the comment.

> 2. There are executable scripts in Functions/Misc, however 'make
>    install' is installing them as non-executable files.

I don't think you're missing anything, we are.  As the files are
functions, they don't *need* to be executable; presumably people have
been adding those that *can* be run stand-alone to the archive as
executable files, but no one's ever bothered to make the installer spot
this.

Index: Util/helpfiles
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Util/helpfiles,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 helpfiles
--- Util/helpfiles	30 May 2001 16:08:16 -0000	1.3
+++ Util/helpfiles	13 Mar 2006 18:50:33 -0000
@@ -107,7 +107,12 @@
     undef($undented);
     if (/^\s*$/ || ($undented = (/^(\s*)/  && length($1) < $indent))) {
 	$undented && &doprint($_);
-	while (defined($_ = <>) && /(^\w)|(^\s*$)/) { 
+	while (defined($_ = <>) && /(^\w)|(^\s*$)/) {
+	    # NAME is the start of the next section when in zshall.
+	    # (Historical note: we used to exit on the page header,
+	    # but text from the old section can continue to the
+	    # new page).
+	    last BUILTINS if /^\s*NAME\s*$/;
 	    last BUILTINS if /^STARTUP\/SHUTDOWN FILES/;
 	    last if /^zsh.*\s\d$/; # GNU nroff -man end-of-page marker
 	}
@@ -121,11 +126,6 @@
 		} while (defined($_) && /^\s*$/);
 	    }
 	}
-	# In zshall, the zshcompctl manual page comes after the
-	# builtins for 3.0, and zshzle comes after it for 3.1.
-	if (/ZSH(COMPCTL|ZLE)\(1\).*ZSH(COMPCTL|ZLE)\(1\)/) {
-	    last BUILTINS;
-	}
 	if (/^(\s*)/ && length($1) < $indent) {
 	    # This may be just a bug on the SGI, or maybe something
 	    # more sinister (don\'t laugh, this is nroff).

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