Fink not behaving with zsh

meltbanana314 · meltbanana314 #1 (**permalink**)

03-14-2005, 11:21 PM

I've been using bash on OS X lately because I couldn't figure out how to use my favourite shell (zsh) with Fink. Today I figured out how - sort of.

I've read through the documentation and I've added "source /sw/bin/init.sh" to my .profile in my home directory (without quotation marks, of course) but I still have to type in that whenever I open up the Terminal because for some reason, zsh isn't reading what I put in my .profile!

Can anybody tell me why this isn't working?

EDIT: Oddly, ". /sw/bin/init.sh" works just as "source /sw/bin/init.sh" does. Still have to manually type them into the Terminal though.

meltbanana314 · meltbanana314 #2 (**permalink**)

03-15-2005, 07:49 PM

Fixed - turns out that zsh only reads the .profile when in sh and ksh compatibility mode. I needed to create my own .zshrc and .zprofile files and put the line in those to get it to work.

iWhat · iWhat #3 (**permalink**)

03-15-2005, 07:52 PM

Your problem is way above my head. LOL!

meltbanana314 #1 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	03-14-2005, 11:21 PM I've been using bash on OS X lately because I couldn't figure out how to use my favourite shell (zsh) with Fink. Today I figured out how - sort of. I've read through the documentation and I've added "source /sw/bin/init.sh" to my .profile in my home directory (without quotation marks, of course) but I still have to type in that whenever I open up the Terminal because for some reason, zsh isn't reading what I put in my .profile! Can anybody tell me why this isn't working? EDIT: Oddly, ". /sw/bin/init.sh" works just as "source /sw/bin/init.sh" does. Still have to manually type them into the Terminal though. Last edited by meltbanana314; 03-14-2005 at 11:29 PM.
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meltbanana314 #2 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	03-15-2005, 07:49 PM Fixed - turns out that zsh only reads the .profile when in sh and ksh compatibility mode. I needed to create my own .zshrc and .zprofile files and put the line in those to get it to work.
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