I have a Mac OSX 10.8 system, where cc is clang. I have no problems with a default build from the current master tarball. However, a static-only build leads to a link failure on opal_wrapper.
Configured with --prefix=... --enable-debug CC=cc CXX=c++ --enable-static --disable-shared Failing portion of "make V=1": /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link cc -g -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -export-dynamic -o opal_wrapper opal_wrapper.o ../../../opal/libopen-pal.la libtool: link: cc -g -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -o opal_wrapper opal_wrapper.o ../../../opal/.libs/libopen-pal.a -lm Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_opal_pmix", referenced from: _opal_get_proc_hostname in libopen-pal.a(proc.o) ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) -Paul -- Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov Computer Languages & Systems Software (CLaSS) Group Computer Science Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900