Zsh requires Bash?

Zsh requires Bash?

[Teemu Tervo]

Hey, people.

Zsh compilation bombs out when /bin/sh symlink is pointing to zsh. I
tried versions 4.0.4 and 4.1.0-dev-5 both as /bin/zsh and as the
compiled one.

Here's the relevant output of configure:

checking whether executables can be stripped... yes
checking whether libraries can be stripped... yes
creating ./config.modules
./configure:7857: functions: attempt to set slice of associative array
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
---
And here's the output of make:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/zsh-4.0.4/Src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/zsh-4.0.4/Src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/zsh-4.0.4/Src'
rm -f stamp-modobjs.tmp
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/zsh-4.0.4/Src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/zsh-4.0.4/Src'
mv: cannot stat `stamp-modobjs.tmp': No such file or directory
Updated `stamp-modobjs'.
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/zsh-4.0.4/Src'
gcc -c -I. -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-Wall -Wno-implicit -Wmissing-prototypes -O2  -o main.o main.c
main.c:30: zsh.mdh: No such file or directory
main.c:31: main.pro: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1

With /bin/sh -> bash, the configure section won't produce the error and
make works just fine. I'd really like to delete bash, since I don't use
it as an interactive shell at all.

Please CC me any replies, since I'm not subscribed.

TIA,
Teemu Tervo / teemu.tervo@gmx.net

Re: Zsh requires Bash?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 28, 11:45pm, Teemu Tervo wrote:
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} Zsh compilation bombs out when /bin/sh symlink is pointing to zsh.

Recent changes to autoconf have tickled a couple of problems in zsh's sh
emulation. I think the one you're running into is fixed by zsh-workers/17357.
There is another that was worked around by the autoconf maintainers, so if
you are still having problems either after applying that patch or after
4.0.5 comes out, you'll have to try upgrading autoconf.

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