Re: Compiling zsh-4.0.2 on Mac OS X

[Brian Boonstra <boonstb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You wrote:
> I'm trying to compile zsh-4.0.2 on Mac OS X (10.0.4). I guess the linker
> is pretty weird (it's from Apple, not GNU). Here's where make fails:
>
> cc  -s  -o zsh main.o  `cat stamp-modobjs`   -lm  -lc
> /usr/bin/ld: can't use -s with input files containg indirect symbols
> (output file must contain at least global symbols, for maximum stripping
> use -x)
> make[1]: *** [zsh] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
> Has anyone gotten zsh-4 to link on Darwin/Mac OS X? If not, any ideas
> what I could try to get this to work?


Hi Wes

  I solved this by running

          autoconf

in the top-level source directory.  That gave me a configure script with  
more options, including one for the ldflags, which I then set to be nothing.

  I suppose this is ultimately a problem with autoconf.


		Brian