Re: build from source

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2024-02-02 09:08, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> > It is fairly easy to replicate. Use stat to examine the timestamps. The
> > test is reliant on the underlying filesystem. I know to avoid builds in
> > my home directory which is typically NFS and prefer a local scratch
> > filesystem which will also be faster. Use df -T . to see the type of
> > filesystem for the current directory.
> >       
>

That's way above my pay grade.  I'll take a look tho:

% df -T .
Filesystem     Type 1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3      ext4    287237 98929    168852  37% /aWorking

>   apt install texinfo
>     
    Installed.  No error msg.  However 'info zsh' still reports 5.8.
> Or you can install and setup command-not-found
>     
    Interesting!  
> For building zsh (or anything) from source, getting all the dependencies
> installed tends to be easier than digging into Makefiles to skip
> non-essentials.
>
> It'd be really good to get more testing of the current git head. There
> have been quite a few changes and it'd be good to find any regressions
> before a release.
>     
    Happy to help.
> Oliver
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