RE: Compiling zsh-4.0.2 on Mac OS X

[Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> This patch causes the "checking for executable suffix..." test in the
> configure script to fail with "compiler cannot create executables."
The
> man page for ld on Mac OS X says that -x overlaps with a compiler
option
> and that to invoke it from cc, it needs to be specified as "-Wl,-x". I
> changed this in the configure script and configure worked again. Then
> "make" succeeded, but "make check" had some problems. I don't know if
> they are specific to OS X or something I did/didn't do. Here's the
errors:
> 
> Test ./C02cond.ztst failed: bad status 1, expected 0 from:
>   [[ -k modish && ! -k zerolength ]]
> Was testing: -k cond
>

That is probably OS specific. Does Mac OS X support sticky bit?

> comptest:2: command not found: zpty

You compiled without module support (or configure decided that modules
are not supported) and did not include zpty in the list of builtin
modules.

Could you send config.log from clean reconfiguration?

-andrej