Re: pg_preadv() and pg_pwritev()

On 14.01.2021 21:05, Tom Lane wrote:
> After considerable playing around, I'm guessing that the reason
> -no_weak_imports doesn't help is that it rejects calls that are
> marked as weak references on the *calling* side. Since AC_CHECK_FUNCS
> doesn't bother to #include the relevant header file, the compiler
> doesn't know that preadv() ought to be marked as a weak reference.
> Then, when the test program gets linked against the stub libc that's
> provided by the SDK, there is a version of preadv() there so no link
> failure occurs. (There are way more moving parts in this weak-reference
> thing than I'd realized.)
>

Oh, that's interesting. I've just played with it a bit and it looks
exactly as you say.

> Another thing I've been realizing while poking at this is that we
> might not need to set -isysroot explicitly at all, which would then
> lead to the compiler using its default sysroot automatically.
> In some experimentation, it seems like what we need PG_SYSROOT for
> is just for configure to be able to find tclConfig.sh and the Perl
> header files. So at this point I'm tempted to try ripping that
> out altogether. If you remove the lines in src/template/darwin
> that inject PG_SYSROOT into CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, do things
> work for you?

Yes, it works fine.