I found the culprit: I had

export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=always'

in my `.zshrc` file and that mangled the .mdd file names.

`make` now succeeds and so does `make check`. :)

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:33 AM Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:50 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I meant that after "make realclean" you need to start all the way back
>> at running Util/preconfig and configure.  Did you?
>>
>
> Yes, I did the following:
>
> % make realclean
> % Util/preconfig
> % configure
> % make
>
>
>
>> It appears for example that the commands to create signames.c are not
>> being executed for your build, nor is anything else that employs
>> $(AWK) (which my configure pass assigns AWK = mawk).
>>
>
> I uninstalled `gawk`, to see if that makes any difference, then ran the
> steps above again, but `make` still fails:
>
> cd .. && /bin/sh $top_srcdir/Src/mkmakemod.sh Src Makemod
> creating Src/Makemod.in
> config.status: creating Src/Makemod
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -f Makemod
> prefix='/usr/local' exec_prefix='/usr/local' bindir='/usr/local/bin'
> libdir='/usr/local/lib' MODDIR='/usr/local/lib/zsh/5.8.0.2-dev'
> infodir='/usr/local/share/info' mandir='/usr/local/share/man'
> datadir='/usr/local/share'
> fndir='/usr/local/share/zsh/5.8.0.2-dev/functions'
> htmldir='/usr/local/share/zsh/htmldoc'
> runhelpdir='/usr/local/share/zsh/5.8.0.2-dev/help' CC='gcc' CPPFLAGS=''
> DEFS='-DHAVE_CONFIG_H' CFLAGS='-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -O2'
> LDFLAGS='-Wl,-x' EXTRA_LDFLAGS='-rdynamic' DLCFLAGS='-fno-common'
> DLLDFLAGS='-bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress' LIBLDFLAGS=''
> EXELDFLAGS='' LIBS='-liconv -ldl -lncurses -lm  -lc' DL_EXT='so' DLLD='gcc'
> AWK='awk' ANSI2KNR=': ansi2knr' YODL=': yodl ' YODL2TXT=': yodl2txt'
> YODL2HTML=': yodl2html' FUNCTIONS_INSTALL='' tzsh='zsh' prep
> echo 'timestamp for *.mdd files' > ../Src/modules.stamp
> rm -f stamp-modobjs.tmp
> mv: rename stamp-modobjs.tmp to stamp-modobjs: No such file or directory
> Updated `stamp-modobjs'.
> gcc -c -I. -I../Src -I../Src -I../Src/Zle -I.  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -O2  -o main.o main.c
> main.c:30:10: fatal error: 'zsh.mdh' file not found
> #include "zsh.mdh"
>          ^~~~~~~~~
> 1 error generated.
> make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>