Re: [BUG?] macOS (Intel) build warnings: "ranlib: file … has no symbols" for aarch64 objects

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2026-04-27T02:31:37Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 10:18:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I previously suggested that we should teach the build systems not
> to build the foo_x86 and foo_aarch64 modules when not on those
> architectures.  That was shot down for reasons that made no great
> amount of sense to me, but I think it'd be fairly easy and clean.

Yeah, AFAICT that's our best bet.  Will write it up in the morning.

-- 
nathan

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Suppress "has no symbols" linker warnings on macOS.
- f00cccb79870 18.4 landed
- 7a8e35a4c964 16.14 landed
- 76cdf922b0e7 15.18 landed
- 5367c28c875c 14.23 landed
- 455ddabc8d9e 17.10 landed
- 3dd42ee97b81 19 (unreleased) landed
- 05f6c9ec2c47 13 (unreleased) landed
Fix two error messages in extended_stats_funcs.c
- 740a1494f4bf 19 (unreleased) cited