Re: zsh 4.3.4 released

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On 23/04/07, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is it possibly you have old wordcode for the dot file that might define
> > > svmode?  (Obviously the shell should be robust even if this is the case;
> > > since the wordcode has a version stamp this shouldn't happen with a
> > > released version of the shell.)
> >
> > Aha, this seems to have been the problem. I renamed my .zshurxvt.zwc
> > and it doesn't crash anymore. I always run zrecompile -p on all my .z*
> > files after upgrading zsh but apparently it only takes effect if the
> > .file is newer than the .file.zwc, maybe it should also take effect if
> > $SHELL is newer than the .zwc?
>
> I think I've found the problem: parse.c doesn't get recompiled when
> version.h changes, so zcompile might output the wrong version, so the shell
> can't check properly when the ZWC file is loaded.
>
> Luckily, this won't happen if the shell is built from scratch, so it
> doesn't affect the fast majority of installed versions.
>
> I think the fix is as simple as changing the dependency, though I decided I
> felt happier if the header for the ZWC file had uninitialised bits set to
> null bytes rather than (say) the password that was lying around in
> memory.
>
> Thanks for your help.

No problem, and thank you too.

zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.2-dev-1):
/root/.zshrc.zwc
re-compiling /root/.zshrc.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.2.0-dev-1):
/root/.zlogout.zwc
re-compiling /root/.zlogout.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.3):
/root/.zcompdump.zwc
re-compiling /root/.zcompdump.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.3): /etc/profile.zwc
re-compiling /etc/profile.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.2-dev-1):
/etc/zprofile.zwc
re-compiling /etc/zprofile.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.2-dev-1):
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions.zwc
re-compiling /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.2-dev-1):
/home/mikaelh/.zshrc.zwc
re-compiling /home/mikaelh/.zshrc.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.3):
/home/mikaelh/.zshenv.zwc
re-compiling /home/mikaelh/.zshenv.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.3):
/home/mikaelh/.zcompdump.zwc
re-compiling /home/mikaelh/.zcompdump.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.2.0-dev-1):
/home/mikaelh/.zlogin.zwc
re-compiling /home/mikaelh/.zlogin.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.2.0-dev-1):
/home/mikaelh/.zlogout.zwc
re-compiling /home/mikaelh/.zlogout.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.2-dev-1):
/home/mikaelh/.delete-to.zwc
re-compiling /home/mikaelh/.delete-to.zwc: succeeded
zrecompile:zcompile:1: zwc file has wrong version (zsh-4.3.0-dev-1):
/home/mikaelh/.zshurxvt.zwc
re-compiling /home/mikaelh/.zshurxvt.zwc: succeeded

:)

-- 
Mikael Magnusson