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Re: broken by the FPATH environment variable defined by bash / lmod

On 8/17/26 7:36 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

On 2026-08-17 15:56:23 -0400, Eric Cook wrote:

On 8/17/26 9:17 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

This is possibly due to /usr/share/lmod/8.7.60/init/bash from the
lmod package, as mentioned at


if bash learned about FPATH and autoloadable functions, then like
other shell variables, it shouldn't be exported (without good
reason) and that file is the problem.


In the present case, I agree. But imagine that someone who doesn't
know anything about zsh uses FPATH as an environment variable for
their own use. This would break zsh scripts that use functions, like


Sure, but that isn't unique to zsh or any unix command though.


Or do you assume that FPATH should universally be known?



That isn't an assumption i would assert with my experience.

Nor does it justify the breaking of long standing use cases like mine that

FPATH=$FPATH zsh -f

to enter in a debugging session without needing to reconstruct FPATH.
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