Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Postgres-XC on OS X: is it possible?

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Nicola Vitacolonna
<nvi...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have tried to build v1.0beta2 on OS X 10.7.4, using gmake 3.82 and gcc
> 4.2.1, but the process fails at an early stage with:
>
> ar crs libgtm.a gtm_opt_scanner.o aset.o mcxt.o gtm_utils.o elog.o
> assert.o stringinfo.o gtm_lock.o gtm_list.o gtm_serialize.o
> gtm_serialize_debug.o gtm_opt_handler.o
> ranlib libgtm.a
> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>   "_threadinfo_key", referenced from:
>       _AllocSetContextCreate in aset.o
>       _AllocSetAlloc in aset.o
>       _AllocSetRealloc in aset.o
>       _current_memcontext in mcxt.o
>       _MemoryContextSwitchTo in mcxt.o
>       _MemoryContextCreate in mcxt.o
>       _MemoryContextInit in mcxt.o
> etc...
>
> Since the architecture (x86_64) is supported, I am just wondering whether
> there is something so specific to Linux platforms that it is impossible or
> very hard to port Postgres-XC to other OSes, or whether I am just missing
> something.
>
MacOSX is based on free-BSD, so there should not be that many problems to
compile...
But the module whose compilation is failing here is GTM, a module exclusive
to XC that has been developed and tested only on Linux platforms. I recall
that it is possible to compile it by modifying a but the Makefiles, and I
recall one guy who did some development in OSX. So Mason, any ideas about
how to compile XC in OSX?
I have ne experience developing XC in MacOS, but if someone has a patch to
allow compilation on OSX, I will gladly commit it.

Regards,
-- 
Michael Paquier
http://michael.otacoo.com