On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 5:47 AM, Jim wrote: > > > > I had been testing different shells to be used as the default "sh" on > > my system. > > If this is failing in one of our scripts, as opposed to in a stock > autoconf test, we might be able to fix it; since it's "not exactly the > same" would you provide more details? > As I said I was testing different shells, it was by chance that /bin/sh and /bin/posh were linked when I started the build. I also tested dash, ksh, mksh, zsh and of course bash by linking them to /bin/sh in turn. The only time the zsh build failed was when /bin/sh and /bin/posh were linked. Last lines of make: make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/friartek/work/zsh/Repository/code/Src/Zle' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/friartek/work/zsh/Repository/code/Src' mv: cannot stat ‘stamp-modobjs.tmp’: No such file or directory Updated `stamp-modobjs'. make[2]: Entering directory '/home/friartek/work/zsh/Repository/code/Src' gawk -f ../Src/makepro.awk main.c Src > main.syms (echo '/* Generated automatically */'; sed -n '/^E/{s/^E//;p;}' < main.syms) \ > main.epro (echo '/* Generated automatically */'; sed -n '/^L/{s/^L//;p;}' < main.syms) \ > `echo main.epro | sed 's/\.epro$/.pro/'` gcc -c -I. -I../Src -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -O2 -o main.o ./main.c make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/friartek/work/zsh/Repository/code/Src' make[2]: Entering directory '/home/friartek/work/zsh/Repository/code/Src' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/friartek/work/zsh/Repository/code/Src' rm -f zsh gcc -s -rdynamic -o zsh main.o `cat stamp-modobjs` -lgdbm -L/usr/lib64 -lpcre -ldl -lncursesw -lrt -lm -lc cat: stamp-modobjs: No such file or directory main.o: In function `main': main.c:(.text.startup+0x1): undefined reference to `zsh_main' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:227: recipe for target 'zsh' failed make[1]: *** [zsh] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/friartek/work/zsh/Repository/code/Src' Makefile:188: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 1 The common thing I saw, between this output and the output of make from 2002 was the file name "stamp-modobjs". Coincidence? So my next step was to link sh to bash and verify that would allow the build to complete. It did. Sequence for each build of zsh-5.4.2-146-gc8e2f3c3d: git reset --hard HEAD git clean -f -d -x >/dev/null Util/preconfig configure make By the way, if there is a better way of preparing and doing builds, I'm open to suggestions. Also building on a newly created branch. Shell versions tested: posh: 0.12.6 mksh: @(#)MIRBSD KSH R56 2017/08/24 dash: 0.5.9.1-r3 ksh: Version ABIJM 93v- 2014-12-24 bash: 4.4.12(1)-release zsh: 5.3.1 Hope this was the info you needed. If you need more info, let me know.