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 package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zsh/zsh-5.0.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b8f2ad691acf58b3252225746480dcad
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 65 MB (includes installing documentation)
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU
Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/zsh-5.0.2-makeinfo-1.patch
Optional Documentation: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zsh/zsh-5.0.2-doc.tar.bz2
Documentation MD5 sum: b6818cbbea635b2f70883bb913d0a04a
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/zsh
If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it with the following command:
tar --strip-components=1 -xvf ../zsh-5.0.2-doc.tar.bz2
Install zsh by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../zsh-5.0.2-makeinfo-1.patch &&
./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 texlive-20130530 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-5.0.2/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/html/* \
/usr/share/doc/zsh-5.0.2/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.{html,txt} \
/usr/share/doc/zsh-5.0.2
If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing
the following commands as the root
user:
make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-5.0.2/html install.html && install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.dvi /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.0.2
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-5.0.2
--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.
Update /etc/shells to include the
zsh shell program names (as the
root user):
cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
/bin/zsh
/bin/zsh-5.0.2
EOF
Last updated on 2013-08-21 09:31:34 -0700