%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ ZSH The ZSH package contains a command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells, ZSH most closely resembles KSH but includes many enhancements. This version of ZSH is a development release. The BLFS staff has determined that it provides a stable program which works properly with multibyte locales (e.g., UTF-8). To find the current stable release, refer to the ZSH home page and compile ZSH with the same instructions. &lfs71_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &zsh-md5sum; Download size: &zsh-size; Estimated disk space required: &zsh-buildsize; Estimated build time: &zsh-time; Additional Downloads Optional Documentation: MD5 sum: &zsh-doc-md5sum; ZSH Dependencies Optional and User Notes: If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it with the following command: tar --strip-components=1 -xvf ../zsh-&zsh-version;-doc.tar.bz2 Install ZSH by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --bindir=/bin \ --sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \ --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh && make && makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html -o Doc/html && makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers \ -o Doc/zsh.html && makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o Doc/zsh.txt If you have installed, you can build PDF format of the documentation by issuing the following command: texi2pdf Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install && make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html && install -v -m644 Doc/html/* \ /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html && install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.{html,txt} \ /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user: make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html install.html && install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.dvi /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; If you built the PDF format of the documentation, install it by issuing the following command as the root user: install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.pdf \ /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; --sysconfdir=/etc/zsh and --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh: These parameters are used so that all the ZSH configuration files are consolidated into the /etc/zsh directory. Omit these parameters if you wish to retain historical compatibility by having all the files located in the /etc directory. --bindir=/bin: This parameter places the zsh binaries into the root filesystem. --enable-cap: This parameter enables POSIX capabilities. --disable-gdbm: This parameter disables the use of the GDBM library. --enable-pcre: This parameter allows to use the PCRE regular expression library in shell builtins. Linking ZSH dynamically against PCRE and/or GDBM produces runtime dependencies on libpcre.so and/or libgdbm.so respectively, which both reside in /usr hierarchy. If /usr is a separate mount point and ZSH needs to be available in boot time, then its supporting libraries should be in /lib too. You can move the libraries as follows: mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib && ln -v -sf ../../lib/libpcre.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcre.so mv -v /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.* /lib && ln -v -sf ../../lib/libgdbm.so.3 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so Alternatively you can statically link ZSH against PCRE and GDBM if you modify the config.modules file (you need first to run configure to generate it). There are a whole host of configuration files for ZSH including /etc/zsh/zshenv, /etc/zsh/zprofile, /etc/zsh/zshrc, /etc/zsh/zlogin and /etc/zsh/zlogout. You can find more information on these in the zsh(1) and related manual pages. /etc/zsh/zshenv /etc/zsh/zprofile /etc/zsh/zshrc /etc/zsh/zlogin /etc/zsh/zlogout Update /etc/shells to include the ZSH shell program names (as the root user): cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF" /bin/zsh /bin/zsh-&zsh-version; EOF Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories zsh and zsh-&zsh-version; Numerous plugin helper modules /etc/zsh, /usr/lib/zsh, /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; and /usr/share/zsh Short Description zsh is a shell which has command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features. zsh