Re: Fix for configure error in 9.5/9.6 on macOS 11.0 Big Sur

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Gilligan <thomas.gilligan@icloud.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-08-02T21:18:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Thomas Gilligan <thomas.gilligan@icloud.com> writes:
> Under the next version of macOS (11.0 unreleased beta 3), configuring Postgres 9.5 and 9.6 fails with

>> checking test program... ok
>> checking whether long int is 64 bits... no
>> checking whether long long int is 64 bits... no
>> configure: error: Cannot find a working 64-bit integer type.

Hm, could we see the config.log output for this?  I'm not 100% convinced
that you've diagnosed the problem accurately, because it'd imply that
Apple made some fundamentally incompatible changes in libc, which
seems like stirring up trouble for nothing.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Use return instead of exit() in configure