Re: 7.4beta2 experiences working on OS X 10.[2-3].x

Johan Henselmans wrote:
> Hi, I have just subscribed to the hackers mailinglist to telll what my  
> adventures are with 7.4.b2 and OS X so far.
> 
> I have encountered some problems, and have some solutions, off which I  
> do not know if they break the port, or do something wrong.
> 
> gcc3.3
> =====
> First, gcc3.3 on 10.2.x and 10.3.x  does nog get postgresql compiled.  
> It seems to have to do with #ifdef indentation in the include files. I  
> found some other references to it. I could work around some of the  
> problems by removing spaces all "# ifdef" and "#  ifdef" and related  
> commands in the include files, but in the end compilations failed on  
> bootstrap.c, with an error message about y.tab.c. It seems Apple has  
> some more work to do on gcc3.3.
> 
> I decided to try another compiler with the command gcc_select 3.1  
> (which chooses the gcc 3.1 compiler).
> 
> That did a lot better. The beta compiled and installed.

Yes, I saw that in Atlanta.  gcc 3.3 is broken when you one of the
compiler flags that OS X defines during PostgreSQL compiles.

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