why do not patch bin in macos

Question

Opened this issue 2 months ago · 5 comments

i found it was disable patch bin in macos , i dont know why disable it

if [ "$ZSH_BIN_KERNEL" = darwin ]; then
  sed_i 's/@ZSH_BIN_DO_PATCH_BIN@/false/g' share/zsh/5.8/scripts/relocate
else

Answer 1 · 2024-07-07T14:42:35.000Z

Probably doesn't work there.

Answer 2 · 2024-07-08T05:07:25.000Z

Probably doesn't work there.

that's right , i tried patch Mach-O 64-bit executable, it will crash after patched . but i don't known why it crash .

Answer 3 · 2024-07-08T07:10:48.000Z

Probably something to do with security.

Answer 4 · 2024-07-08T09:32:17.000Z

Probably something to do with security.

i want to find how to fix this ,but i even dont known what's the name of this mechanic.

btw, if we not do patching in macos , that is zsh-bin binary is not relocate in macos , so the relocate feature is only working in linux , right?

Answer 5 · 2024-07-08T10:45:16.000Z

btw, if we not do patching in macos , that is zsh-bin binary is not relocate in macos , so the relocate feature is only working in linux , right?

Yes, I think so.

macOS comes with zsh 5.9 by default. What are you trying to achieve by installing zsh 5.8 via zsh-bin?