Re: Errors statically compiling bash on a Mac M1 (aarch64e).

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/28/23 4:50 AM, hi@tofn.xyz via wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to statically compile bash-5.15 on my Mac M1 and I get an error that
>
> checking size of size_t... configure: error: in 
> `/Volumes/ws/ws/blogs/bash-5.2.15':configure: error: cannot compute sizeof 
> (size_t)See `config.log' for more details

What does config.log say? Check for "checking size of size_t" and see what
it's trying to do and the exact compiler error.

It may be that the combination of header files needed just doesn't
work on the M1 variant of clang.

> As a sanity check I confirmed the following compiles and runs without error 
> using gcc and apples variant of clang:
>
> #include <stdint.h>
> int main() {    printf("%lu", sizeof(size_t));}

size_t is defined in <stddef.h>.

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