Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix detection of pwritev support for OSX. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix detection of pwritev support for OSX.
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Msg-id 483800.1611076636@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix detection of pwritev support for OSX.  (James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix detection of pwritev support for OSX.  (James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>)
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James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:57 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> It worked for me and for Sergey, so we need to figure out what's different
>> about your setup.  What do you get from "xcrun --show-sdk-path" and
>> "xcrun --sdk macosx --show-sdk-path"?  What have you got under
>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs ?

> $ xcrun --show-sdk-path
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
> $ xcrun --sdk macosx --show-sdk-path
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk
> $ ls -laht /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel   160B Jan 14  2020 .
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel   256B Jan 14  2020 MacOSX10.15.sdk
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel   224B Jan 14  2020 MacOSX10.14.sdk
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    15B Jan 14  2020 MacOSX.sdk -> MacOSX10.15.sdk

Ah, got it.  So "xcrun --show-sdk-path" tells us the right thing (that
is, it *does* give us a symlink to a 10.15 SDK) but by refusing to
believe we've got the right thing, we end up picking MacOSX11.1.sdk.
Drat.  I suppose we could drop the heuristic about wanting a version
number in the SDK path, but I really don't want to do that.  Now I'm
thinking about trying to dereference the symlink after the first step.

BTW, it's curious that you get a reference to the MacOSX.sdk symlink
where both Sergey and I got references to the actual directory.
Do you happen to recall the order in which you installed/upgraded
Xcode and its command line tools?

>> I don't think I believe that argument.  As a counterexample, supposing
>> that somebody were intentionally cross-compiling on an older OSX platform
>> but using a newer SDK, shouldn't they get an executable suited to the
>> SDK's target version?

> Yep, that's exactly what this should fix:
> MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11.0 ./configure
> checking for pwritev... yes
> Which fails at runtime on 10.15:

Well yeah, exactly.  It should fail at run-time, because you
cross-compiled an executable that's not built for the machine
you're on.  What we need is to prevent configure from setting up
a cross-compile situation by default.

            regards, tom lane



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