From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 17381 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2020 16:14:47 -0000 Received: from ns1.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (203.24.36.2) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jul 2020 16:14:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 2908 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2020 16:14:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: zsh-users@zsh.org X-Seq: 24994 Received: (qmail 23795 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Jul 2020 16:14:37 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta04.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.102.3/25863. spamassassin: 3.4.4. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.10):SA:0(-2.6/5.0):. Processed in 1.44836 secs); 11 Jul 2020 16:14:37 -0000 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at _spf.eastlink.ca designates 24.224.136.10 as permitted sender) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=R9SY5eZX c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=zv49KfEsxEDzuN5AGO7r0Q==:117 a=zv49KfEsxEDzuN5AGO7r0Q==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=NynbUs20aGmuPOLcRe0A:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 X-Vade-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduiedrvdefgddutdduucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecugfetuffvnffkpffmpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhepuffvfhfhkffffgggjggtgfesthekredttdefheenucfhrhhomheptfgrhicutehnughrvgifshcuoehrrgihrghnughrvgifshesvggrshhtlhhinhhkrdgtrgeqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepjeeutddtleekueehiedtuedtfedvudevkedvhedujeekjedvhedutedujeetjeeinecukfhppedvgedrvddtjedrledtrdduleegnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehinhgvthepvdegrddvtdejrdeltddrudelgedphhgvlhhopegludelvddrudeikedrtddrfegnpdhmrghilhhfrhhomheprhgrhigrnhgurhgvfihssegvrghsthhlihhnkhdrtggrpdhrtghpthhtohepiihshhdquhhsvghrshesiihshhdrohhrgh X-Vade-Score: 0 X-Vade-State: 0 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.90.194 Subject: Re: How do I make 5.8 the login shell??? To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: From: Ray Andrews Message-id: Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 09:14:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Content-language: en-US On 2020-07-10 9:30 p.m., Frank Gallacher wrote: > > Greetings, > > Is there a trick to installing 5.8,  I downloaded the tarball, > decompressed it, then did a ./configure and a make followed by “make > install” > Why not try Roman's pre-compiled version?  The first time I tried to build zsh it took me days of effort and  research.  Pages of notes helped after that but still things tended to go wrong for one reason or another.  About  as fun as going for a colonoscopy mostly. Roman's production simply drops in and works.  No more looking for -- nuts I can't remember what that silly dependency is but Debian offers 15 versions of it and you hafta have the right one and no help choosing.  'cursing' or sumit, and you do end up cursing quite a bit.