Re: path mangled in 4.3.9

[Daniel Sproul <sproul+unix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

that worked, thanks!

"path_helper"?  no thank you!

cheers,
- daniel

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:03:40AM -0700, William G. Scott wrote:
> 
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Daniel Sproul wrote:
> 
> >I am running Mac OS X 10.6.1 and the included zsh (version 4.3.9):
> >
> >[bebop:~]% zsh --version
> >zsh 4.3.9 (i386-apple-darwin10.0)
> >
> >I use .zprofile to set up my PATH, which works fine initially, but  
> >if I
> >fork another zsh process from inside zsh then my PATH gets reordered:
> >
> >[bebop:~]% echo $PATH
> >/Users/sproul/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/ 
> >usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> >[bebop:~]% zsh
> >[bebop:~]% echo $PATH
> >/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/ 
> >sproul/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> >
> >the problem appears to be zsh-specific, given that if I fork a bash
> >process my PATH gets properly exported:
> >
> >[bebop:~]% echo $PATH
> >/Users/sproul/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/ 
> >usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> >[bebop:~]% bash
> >[bash]% echo $PATH
> >/Users/sproul/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/ 
> >usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> >
> >The same thing happens to my MANPATH.
> >
> >I do have the following line in my .zshrc, though commenting it out
> >doesn't seem to change anything:
> >typeset -U PATH MANPATH CDPATH FPATH
> >
> >any thoughts?
> >
> >thanks!
> >- daniel
> >
> 
> Apple was kind enough to provide a new  /etc/zshenv that contains
> 
> 
> # system-wide environment settings for zsh(1)
> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
>         eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
> fi
> 
> Try
> 
> sudo mv /etc/zshenv /etc/zshenv.dist
> 
> and see if you now get the expected behavior.
> 
> Bill
> 
>