diff --git a/bin/zcat b/bin/zcat
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ebf64b7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/zcat
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+import gzip
+
+# Check if a file path has been provided
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print("Usage: zcat <filename>")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Open the gzip file
+with gzip.open(sys.argv[1], "rt") as f:
+    # Read the contents of the file and print to standard output
+    print(f.read())
+
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 9b4c4b03..d4e27ede 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ EOF
               cd "\${QP_ROOT}"/external
               tar --gunzip --extract --file qp2-dependencies/zeromq-4.2.5.tar.gz
               cd zeromq-*
+              [[ ${SYSTEM} = Darwin ]] && ./autogen.sh
               ./configure --prefix="\$QP_ROOT" --without-libsodium --enable-libunwind=no
               make -j 8
               make install
diff --git a/external/qp2-dependencies b/external/qp2-dependencies
index fd43778e..b9e877d9 160000
--- a/external/qp2-dependencies
+++ b/external/qp2-dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit fd43778e12bb5858c4c780c34346be0f158b8cc7
+Subproject commit b9e877d9a9444a2aac23ec94b4a174caa4a10dd2
diff --git a/scripts/compilation/qp_create_ninja b/scripts/compilation/qp_create_ninja
index aad85778..aa93afb3 100755
--- a/scripts/compilation/qp_create_ninja
+++ b/scripts/compilation/qp_create_ninja
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ from qp_path import QP_ROOT, QP_SRC, QP_EZFIO
 
 LIB = " -lz"
 EZFIO_LIB = join("$QP_ROOT", "lib", "libezfio_irp.a")
-ZMQ_LIB = join("$QP_ROOT", "lib", "libf77zmq.a") + " "  + join("$QP_ROOT", "lib", "libzmq.a") + " -lstdc++ -lrt -ldl"
+ZMQ_LIB = "-lzmq -lf77zmq"
+#ZMQ_LIB = join("$QP_ROOT", "lib", "libf77zmq.a") + " "  + join("$QP_ROOT", "lib", "libzmq.a") + " -lstdc++ -lrt -ldl"
 ROOT_BUILD_NINJA = join("$QP_ROOT", "config", "build.ninja")
 ROOT_BUILD_NINJA_EXP =  join(QP_ROOT, "config", "build.ninja")
 ROOT_BUILD_NINJA_EXP_tmp =  join(QP_ROOT, "config", "build.ninja.tmp")
diff --git a/src/ezfio_files/00.create.bats b/src/ezfio_files/00.create.bats
index cfa6247d..496519f4 100644
--- a/src/ezfio_files/00.create.bats
+++ b/src/ezfio_files/00.create.bats
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ function run {
 
 
 @test "B-B" {
-  qp set_file b2_stretched.ezfio
   run b2_stretched.zmt 1 0 6-31g
 }