Re: Making PostgreSQL 7.4 (CVS) work properly on OS X 10.3 (7B85)

Bob Ippolito <bob(at)redivi(dot)com> writes:
> Here's my notes on how to build PostgreSQL 7.4 (CVS) on OS X 10.3
> (7B85) with (seems to be working, but I haven't really ran any tests)
> python, tcl, perl, readline.

I have just in the past couple hours realized that ps_status.c is
seriously broken on OS X 10.3. It appears that Apple has randomly
decided to start #define'ing "BSD", which they did not do in any
prior OS X release, and this confuses ps_status.c into choosing the
wrong method of updating the ps-visible command line. Aside from
causing ps to not show any useful info about postmaster child processes,
this seems to cause dynamic loading of libraries to fail in some
cases :-( ... still trying to understand what's happening there ...

> I noticed today that you guys are just
> about to release, so I figure I should bring this up right now.

Indeed. We need to fix this yesterday.

> * I ditched the system.c hack, assuming Apple has fixed them by 10.3 --
> because it breaks tcl and python if you do.

I don't see why system.c would affect the problem I'm seeing --- does
this really fix pltcl for you?

regards, tom lane