[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#666168: zsh: Many function definitions are missing zsh-newuser-install, compinit, etc.

[Hong Xu]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 21:59, Frank Terbeck <ft at bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:

> Hong Xu wrote:
>> On 03/29/2012 09:18 PM, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> [...]
>>>   print -l $fpath
>>>   c=( ${^fpath}/compinit(N.) )
>>>   (( $#c ))&&  ls -l $c[1] || echo compinit not found
> [...]
>> It cames up with:
>> 
>>    /opt/intel/composerxe-2011.5.220/mkl/include
>>    compinit not found
> 
> I have no idea were this is coming from. Please do this:
> 
>  % zsh -f
>      (and in that new shell)
>  % print -l $fpath
> 
> If that yields "/opt/intel/composerxe-2011.5.220/mkl/include" then that
> is not from our package. That would be completely broken.
> 
>>> In case it's broken try this:
>>> 
>>>   % zsh -f
>>>       (and in that new shell)
>>>   % autoload -Uz compinit
>>>   % compinit
>>>   % print ${#_comps}
>>> 
>>> The `compinit' call should *not* fail and the `print' call should return
>>> an integer in the range of slightly above one thousand.
>> 
>> compinit fails, and the print gives 0.
> 
> This makes me think that your zsh is actually entire broken, what source
> are you getting your package from? Do:
> 
>  % apt-cache policy zsh
> 
> The unchanged $fpath from a default zsh installation on a recent debian
> sid system should look like this:
> 
> [...]
> 
> In particular, we do NOT have any /opt/intel/... paths in there.
> 

I know what's going on here now: intel compiler init scripts change the fpath variable.

Thanks!

Hong