Minor confusion in zsh install warning

[apennebaker]

Is this zsh warning still relevant in Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks?

$ brew install zsh
...
If you have administrator privileges, you must fix an Apple miss
configuration in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by renaming /etc/zshenv to
/etc/zprofile, or Zsh will have the wrong PATH when executed
non-interactively by scripts.
...

If so, we should generalize the warning to 10.7 Lion - 10.9 Mavericks. If not, we should say the warning applies to 10.7 Lion - <the last unfixed Mac version>.

[apennebaker]

Also, people are reporting that in Mavericks, you have to set PATH neither in /etc/zprofile, nor in /etc/zprofile, but in /etc/zshrc.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=zshenv%20mavericks

[adamv]

I don't use zsh myself, so we would welcome a Pull Request with updated instructions, or one with no instructions and a link to a webpage that included them.

[MikeMcQuaid]

I do use zsh but not the Homebrew package. I feel a bit uneasy that we're telling people to rename system files.

[adamv]

I'm going to remove the instructions entirely.

[adamv]

Perhaps we should default to not reading /etc.

[MikeMcQuaid]

@adamv seems sensible for both.

[apennebaker]

@adamv Thanks!

[cbarrick]

What exactly is the misconfiguration in /etc/zshenv? As far as I can tell, my path is working fine in Mavericks.

/etc/zshenv gets sourced first, always right? And it calls path_helper to set the path, right (or did I add that to my own config)? So what's the problem?

Anyway, currently /etc/zshenv isn't being sourced for me even with --enable-etcdir, but it is with --enable-etcdir=/etc. Working on a pull-request now.

[MikeMcQuaid]

@FloFra Deleted your comment. Try and be polite next time.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Note to anyone who complains about this in future: not reading from /etc is what the vast majority of Homebrew formulae do. It's unfortunate that we needed to change the behaviour here but it should have been this way in the first place.