Re: path mangled in 4.3.9

["William G. Scott" <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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