Re: Annoying build warnings from latest Apple toolchain

Hi,

On 2023-09-29 12:14:40 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> >> On 2023-09-28 16:46:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Well, it's only important on platforms where we can't restrict
> >>> libpq.so from exporting all symbols.  I don't know how close we are
> >>> to deciding that such cases are no longer interesting to worry about.
> >>> Makefile.shlib seems to know how to do it everywhere except Windows,
> >>> and I imagine we know how to do it over in the MSVC scripts.
> 
> >> Hm, then I'd argue that we don't need to care about it anymore. The meson
> >> build does the necessary magic on windows, as do the current msvc scripts.
> 
> > If we take that argument seriously, then I'm inclined to adjust my
> > upthread patch for Makefile.global.in so that it removes the extra
> > inclusions of libpgport/libpgcommon everywhere, not only macOS.
> > The rationale would be that it's not worth worrying about ABI
> > stability details on any straggler platforms.
> 
> Looking closer, it's only since v16 that we have export list support
> on all officially-supported platforms.

Oh, right, before that Solaris didn't support it. I guess we could backpatch
that commit, it's simple enough, but I don't think I care enough about Solaris
to do so.


> Therefore, I think the prudent thing to do in the back branches is use the
> patch I posted before, to suppress the duplicate -l switches only on macOS.
> In HEAD, I propose we simplify life by doing it everywhere, as attached.

Makes sense.

Greetings,

Andres Freund