Control: forwarded -1 https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2026/msg00939.html
On 2026-08-17 16:35:32 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > Github is currently down > (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx), > so I can't check that reference. I don't think it really matters anyway. > But is it actually necessary and a good idea, that lmod > *exports* variables like that? Probably not. IMHO, the right solution would be to ask lmod users to run something like "source ..." from their own init file. Moreover, while I don't know what lmod's FPATH-related code should do, it does not seem to behave as intended: unset __zsh_fpath if [ -n "${ZSH_VERSION+x}" ] && ! (autoload -U compinit && compinit -C 2> /dev/null) ; then __zsh_fpath=$(unset FPATH; zsh -f -c 'echo $FPATH') fi export FPATH=$(/usr/share/lmod/lmod/libexec/addto --append FPATH ${__zsh_fpath:-$FPATH} /usr/share/lmod/lmod/init/ksh_funcs) unset __zsh_fpath The goal of the __zsh_fpath=$(unset FPATH; zsh -f -c 'echo $FPATH') seems to get zsh's default $FPATH (for the first zsh in $PATH), so that the lmod specific paths are appended. But what I can see is that zsh's default $FPATH is overridden, because the "export FPATH=..." is outside the "if". In any case, such a solution is ugly as if the user has another zsh version installed on their machine and wants to run it, the $FPATH (assuming that the intent of zsh is to honor it, which I think is a major design bug) would be incorrect for the paths associated with the zsh installation. > > It appears that instead of ignoring the $FPATH environment variable > > on startup, zsh sets $fpath to $FPATH. > > Right. > > > Note that the zshparam(1) man page says: "Some environment variables > > are not imported for reasons of security or because they would > > interfere with the correct operation of other shell features.", > > which should be the case here. > > Do you mind brining this up to upstream yourself? I've posted a message to zsh-workers and put the URL in "forwarded". -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
