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List: pgsql-bugs
Subject: Re: BUG #15525: Build failures when compiling Postgres with Make parallelization
From: Andrew Gierth <andrew () tao11 ! riddles ! org ! uk>
Date: 2018-11-30 0:12:00
Message-ID: 87k1kvmnvc.fsf () news-spur ! riddles ! org ! uk
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
Thomas> But just for the record, while we're doing amateur software
Thomas> archeology: I'm pretty sure Apple's libtool/ranlib is not
Thomas> derived from BSD... it says it's from NeXT and has no
Thomas> University of California copyright. They probably needed
Thomas> something different to work with Mach-O objects, whereas
Thomas> ancient BSD used a.out and modern BSDen use ELF. It also
Thomas> supports their funky fat/universal libraries which NeXT and
Thomas> Apple used to change CPU architectures several times
Thomas> surprisingly smoothly. I don't see anything like that utime()
Thomas> in either modern FreeBSD (where it's been rewritten at least
Thomas> once) or ancient 4.4BSD lite sources.
I also noticed that an Apple manpage mentions that the linker at one
time compared the mod-time of the .a file with the embedded timestamp of
its archive symbol table member, which is probably why the utime() call
existed in the first place. I don't recall that behavior in other
linkers, offhand.
--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
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