Re: Build with LTO / -flto on macOS

On 03.06.24 16:22, Wolfgang Walther wrote:
> Building with clang and -flto on macOS currently fails with errors
> similar to [1]. This is because the --export-dynamic flag is called
> -export_dynamic [2] instead and we have not been passing this variant to
> the linker, so far.

It's probably worth clarifying that this option is needed on macOS only
if LTO is also enabled. For standard (non-LTO) builds, the
export-dynamic behavior is already the default on macOS (otherwise
nothing in PostgreSQL would work).

I don't think we explicitly offer LTO builds as part of the make build
system, so anyone trying this would do it sort of self-service, by
passing additional options to configure or make. In which case they
might as well pass the -export_dynamic option along in the same way?

I don't mind addressing this in PG18, but I would hesitate with
backpatching. With macOS, it's always hard to figure out whether these
kinds of options work the same way going versions back.