Re: zsh handling of non-standard if-evaluations

[Daniel Qarras <dqarras@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

> > } Hmm, my login shell is zsh and I've set in my ~/.zshenv:
> > } 
> > } . /etc/profile
> > } 
> > } which in turns goes thru /etc/profile.d/*.sh and one of those
> > scripts
> > } is from the proprietary application. So perhaps I should do
> "setopt
> > } no_equals" before the above mentioned line?
> > 
> > Generally speaking ~/.zshenv is too early in the startup script
> order
> > to be reading /etc/profile from there.  If you need to read
> > /etc/profile you should do it from ~/.zprofile.
> 
> Good point. I definitely need to do it, I have an account on several
> machines where admins and applications add scripts under
> /etc/profile.d
> to set up various things like paths and variables.
> 
> > your original state, you need something like this:
> > 
> >     zmodload -i zsh/parameter && {
> >       __zsh=( ${(kv)options} )
> >       emulate sh
> >       . /etc/profile
> >       emulate zsh
> >       options=( $__zsh )
> >       unset __zsh
> >     }
> > 
> > This has the side-effect of vacating any option settings from any
> > scripts
> > in /etc/profile.d that happen to know about zsh, but I think of
> that
> > as a good thing.
> 
> I need to test this a bit. I'll get back to this when I've done some
> experiments.

Uh, oh..

I am testing this under RHEL4 / FC6, both have zsh RPMs that comes with
/etc/zprofile which has the following lines:

# source profile
if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
        source /etc/profile
fi

And this is also failing. I made a bug for RH about this at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225454

But.. reading more about this it seems that placing settings etc in zsh
startup scripts seems to be a source for endless debate.

For example, admin sets locales in /etc/profile but I want use locale
settings I set up in my init files in any case. .zshenv would be
logical, I guess, but it's too early as /etc/profile gets sources
later. .zprofile won't work because it's not sources when starting an
xterm. And .zshrc is no good because it's not sourced when session is
not interactive!

D'oh!




 
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