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

[Nicola V. <nvi...@gm...>]

On 27/mag/2012, at 20:59, Nicola Vitacolonna wrote:

> 
> On 27/mag/2012, at 16:47, Mason wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <mic...@gm...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I am attaching a short patch that I use. I am still using Mac OS X 10.6.8.
> 
> Thanks a lot, now everything builds fine (OS X 10.7.4)!
> I also had to delete src/gtm/path/libgtmpath.a before building. Probably, that file should not be in the source tarball.

Btw, it seems that “make” will do (no need for gmake).
Nicola