-export-dynamic is a linker option, pass it down as such. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git/commit/?id=9631de152b4c83cdd0aadeb179a0c4f731192174 --- configure.orig Tue Jan 26 09:44:37 2016 +++ configure Tue Jan 26 09:44:50 2016 @@ -4724,7 +4724,7 @@ $as_echo "$make_type" >&6; } { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether the linker accepts -export-dynamic" >&5 $as_echo_n "checking whether the linker accepts -export-dynamic... " >&6; } OLDLDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS -LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -export-dynamic" +LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-export-dynamic" if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then : ac_export_dynamic=no else