Re: zsh under leopard, screen not executing zprofile, wiping PATH

[Christian Ebert]

* Aaron Davies on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 23:51:31 +0800
> i have an old powerbook g4 which i recently upgraded (in place, not
> archive-and-install) from tiger to leopard. now, when i start screen,
> zsh apparently resets the PATH to the bare basic four directories
> (overriding the heavily customized and exported PATH from the parent
> shell, and then fails to read my .zprofile. it does read my .zshrc
> tho, as my aliases are all present. this worked fine in tiger, so
> presumably apple's done something screwy with screen and/or zsh in
> leopard. anyone have any clues?

I am fuming about this as well (for bash). The culprit is a
script /usr/libexec/path_helper that is called from
/etc/profile (for bash). This sort of reads from /etc/paths and
/etc/paths.d/*. The irony is that it forces /usr/local to the
last position ...

I resorted to removing the call to path_helper as my /etc/bashrc
then does what it should.

In case you're using screen+xterm+X11 you're in for a few
surprises as well :-(

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