This patch will be obsolete when https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/268 will be accepted. --- open-vm-tools-stable-10.3.0/configure.ac.orig 2018-08-03 11:38:18.108521301 +0000 +++ open-vm-tools-stable-10.3.0/configure.ac 2018-08-03 11:38:37.038872822 +0000 @@ -1526,7 +1526,11 @@ VMTOOLS_CPPFLAGS="-DVMTOOLS_USE_GLIB $GLIB2_CPPFLAGS" PLUGIN_CPPFLAGS="$VMTOOLS_CPPFLAGS $PLUGIN_CPPFLAGS" -PLUGIN_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-lc -Wl,--as-needed -shared -module -avoid-version" +if test "$have_gnu_ld" = "yes"; then + PLUGIN_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-lc -Wl,--as-needed -shared -module -avoid-version" +else + PLUGIN_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-lc -shared -module -avoid-version" +fi # Installation directories for core services plugins. TEST_PLUGIN_INSTALLDIR=$datadir/open-vm-tools/tests