Re: [PATCHES] Use non-deprecated APIs for dynloader/darwin.c

Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com> writes:
> On Oct 8, 2006, at 14:29, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Looks good, but I don't think we want to abandon OSX 10.2 support
>> just yet. I'll revise this to use a configure probe for dlopen.

> Maybe we can abandon Mac OS X 10.2 in 8.3 and later? And not back-
> port these patches to the 7.x, 8.0, and 8.1 branches?

I don't see any particular reason to abandon 10.2 at all, as long as
all it's costing us is a couple dozen lines in dynloader/darwin.c.
As for back-porting, I don't see a strong reason to do that either.
Apple will presumably maintain the compatibility APIs for a long
while yet.

> BTW, I think the configure probe (only on Darwin, correct?) should
> test for the existence of <dlfcn.h>.

I realized that configure is already probing for dlopen(), so I just
used HAVE_DLOPEN. We can add a separate test for the header file if
it proves really necessary, but I bet it's not.

regards, tom lane