zsh build issues.

[zapman]

I emerged zsh (4.0.6) and am having some issues.

When I build strait from source, my shell init files work just fine.

When I use the gentoo version, the 'compinit' shell function that enables programable completion lists the function definitions of all functions it finds in my $fpath.

This is hideously verbose. It also doesn't enable the programable completion

The same init files work perfectly with source built zsh. The only difference is the fpath (when using /bin/zsh it points to /usr/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/functiions, when using source built, it points to /usr/local/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/functions)

The relevant part of my .zshrc is:

fpath=( /usr/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/functions )

zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete _approximate
zstyle ':completion:*' glob 1
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' '' 'r:|[._-]=** r:|=**'
zstyle ':completion:*' max-errors 1
zstyle :compinstall filename '/home/jprice/.zshrc'
[[ -z $fpath[(r)$_compdir] ]] && fpath=($fpath $_compdir)

autoload -U compinit
compinit
# End of lines added by compinstall

does anyone have some ideas what the difference between gentoo's zsh, and source are?

[sa]

You shouldn't have to define fpath unless you have personal functions that you want to load.

try taking out this:
fpath=( /usr/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/functions )
or changing it to:
fpath=( $fpath /usr/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/functions )

In my .zshrc I just have:
fpath=($fpath ~/.zfunc)
for func in $^fpath/*(N-.x:t); autoload $func
export fpath
typeset -U fpath
autoload -U compinit
compinit
zstyle '*' hosts $hosts

hth,
sa