Re: 64bit initdb failure on macOS 10.11 and 10.12

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: rjhb(at)bb-c(dot)de (Rainer J(dot)H(dot) Brandt)
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 64bit initdb failure on macOS 10.11 and 10.12
Date: 2017-08-08 15:14:19
Message-ID: 3311.1502205259@sss.pgh.pa.us
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rjhb(at)bb-c(dot)de (Rainer J.H. Brandt) writes:
> This 32/64 business isn't the problem, though.

> I've found out that everything works if I type the configure/make commands
> in my shell (which isn't what I said before, sorry about that), but stops
> working if I put them into a Perl script (which is how I automate things
> across OSes).

Ooooh, that's interesting ...

> The weird thing is that the commands are absolutely the same,
> and environment is the same, too.

I bet not. We've seen problems with macOS unexpectedly deciding to
filter away inherited environment variables in some situations.
It might be useful to put "env >somefile" into the PG makefile and
compare results between the two ways of invoking it.

regards, tom lane

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