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Date:      Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:38:21 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 268714] shells/zsh: log/watch functionality disabled for poudriere/synth builds
Message-ID:  <bug-268714-7788@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 268714
           Summary: shells/zsh: log/watch functionality disabled for
                    poudriere/synth builds
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: bapt@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: okiddle@yahoo.co.uk
          Assignee: bapt@FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(bapt@FreeBSD.org)

Created attachment 239205
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Touch utx.active from Makefile to trick autoconf

When running the zsh log builtin on FreeBSD, I get:

    log: not available on this system

If I build zsh from source, it works fine. The cause of this is an autoconf
test in the zsh configure script which looks for the appropriate utmp file =
for
login information. In the case of recent FreeBSD, this is /var/run/utx.acti=
ve.
I think the problem is that when zsh is built with poudriere or synth, a ch=
root
or jail or similar is used where this file is absent. I attach a patch which
touches that file from the Makefile as a simple hack to trick the autoconf
test. I've only tested this with synth. Maybe you have better ideas on how =
the
autoconf test should be written?

An unrelated minor item with the zsh port Makefile is that I think ZSH_VER
should be defined to be ${DISTVERSION} instead of ${PORTVERSION}. It is the
distributed version that zsh inserts into the paths for the distributed
functions. I typically build a newer zsh from git as a port and my git repo=
 has
carried that change for some time.

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