Re: Build failure on OSX (Solved)

Florian G. Pflug wrote:
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>>> I'm getting linker error on OSX since about two days. Any idea why the
>>> symbol __ftol is missing,
>>> and which library should provide it?
>> ...
>>> /Users/pgadmin3/Installs/PostgreSQL/8.1.3/lib/libpq.a -lssl -lcrypto
>>> ld: Undefined symbols:
>>> __ftol
>> ...

I found the error. misc.cpp defines _ftol or _ftol2 as "extern". Whoever
added that code seems to have believed that "#if (_MSC_VER < 1300)" will
evaluate to false if _MSC_VER is not defined ;-) It doesn't, howerver,
so this needs wrapping inside "#ifdef WIN32".

Heres a patch, please apply.

Index: src/utils/misc.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/utils/misc.cpp (revision 5084)
+++ src/utils/misc.cpp (working copy)
@@ -428,9 +428,10 @@
}
#endif

+#ifdef WIN32
#if (_MSC_VER < 1300)
/* _ftol2 is more than VC7. */
extern "C" long _ftol( double );
extern "C" long _ftol2( double dblSource ) { return _ftol( dblSource ); }
#endif
-
+#endif

mfg, Florian Pflug