Re: [wgiokas@WST420: Re: Correct installation path for completion files]

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 26,  1:41pm, William Giokas wrote:
} Subject: Re: [wgiokas@WST420: Re: Correct installation path for completion
}
} 
} On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:23:06PM +0200, Frank Terbeck wrote:
} > William Giokas wrote:
} > 
} > It's hard to make it distribution-agnostic. The best way I can think of
} > is to use the output of this as the destination directory:
} > 
} >   zsh -fc 'print ${fpath[1]}'
} 
} If vendor-functions is something special that distributions use, then
} they can specify that when they package this stuff. site-functions seems
} to be the default for zsh, so it seems that it should be the default for
} packages that install zsh completion.

Even if you choose site-functions you still need to know what path the
distribution has used as the prefix ... you've already pointed out that
RedHat-derived dists have /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/ whereas Debian
uses /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/.

Frank's suggestion of running zsh to grab the first directory in $fpath
is as good a way to avoid the guesswork as any.  If zsh won't run because
it's not installed, you're no worse off (and you can decide to skip the
function installation entirely).