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