[bug]: cannot stat 'path/to/zinit/doc/zinit.1'

[chunleng]

What happened?

After installing zinit 3.8.0 the following line appears

cp: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/zinit/3.8.0/doc/zinit.1: No such file or directory

Steps to reproduce

1. Remove ~/.zinit folder
2. Use zshrc with just source /opt/homebrew/Cellar/zinit/*/zinit.zsh
3. Start zsh

Relevant output

cp: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/zinit/3.8.0/doc/zinit.1: No such file or directory

Screenshots and recordings

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Operating System & Version

OS: darwin21.0 | Vendor: apple | Machine: x86_64 | CPU: arm64 | Processor: arm | Hardware: arm64

Zsh version

zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin21.0)

Terminal emulator

xterm-kitty

If using WSL on Windows, which version of WSL

No response

Additional context

No response

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[vladdoster]

Mhm, It is a bug in the formulae.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/471af5646d50097945a5f403d6908226baa1122e/Formula/zinit.rb#L21

[chunleng]

The formulae just update the version it seems, maybe something changed in this update that needs to update to the formula

Homebrew/homebrew-core@6fde9e7

[altern8tif]

I think PR #380 broke it...

[alichtman]

The homebrew formula looks fine to me. It downloads https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/archive/refs/tags/v3.8.0.tar.gz, which does contain doc/zinit.1. Don't know what's going on here. Shouldn't have merged that PR so fast.

[vladdoster]

@chunleng Again, it is a bug in the formula. But I forgot to say what it was.

The bug is here

man1.install "doc/zinit.1"

It moves (NOT copy) zinit.1 to Brew managed manpage collection, which is why it can't find the file.

[vladdoster]

I could not update the formula because Homebrew requires the respective project to have a release within the last year, which Zinit had not.

[ghost]

I thought I would chime in to provide a quick fix:

ln -s "$(man --path zinit)" "$(brew --prefix)/opt/zinit/doc/zinit.1"

[github-actions]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 3.9.0 🎉

The release is available on GitHub release

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[Tomcatus]

This still seems to be a problem. Tried installing Zinit on a fresh MacOS through homebrew. It installed v5.9.0 and I'm still getting this error when opening a new terminal session: cp: /opt/homebrew/opt/zinit/doc/zinit.1: No such file or directory. Happening on MacOS Ventura 13.1. Doesn't happen if I install Zinit through the recommended automatic curl command.

[jdatskuid]

I also encountered this issue with a fresh install on a brand new Macbook. I can confirm that I installed version 3.9.

@aov-mx provided a very helpful fix. For Mac users out there, the flag --path might not work, but you can use -w instad:

ln -s "$(man -w zinit)" "$(brew --prefix)/opt/zinit/doc/zinit.1"

[henryhchchc]

This also happens with nix installation.

cp: cannot stat '~/.nix-profile/share/zinit/doc/zinit.1': No such file or directory

[ethnh]

@alichtman I see my PR had already been merged & unmerged before
why'd u undo this change before ?

[ethnh]

@psprint also
thx for your work though love zinit 😁