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

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>, Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-29T15:40:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 09:58:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
>> Why should this be backpatched at all?
> 
> To silence those warnings.  If you're using a Mac for development,
> they're pretty annoying.  And we have generally had a policy of
> trying to silence warnings in still-interesting branches.

Right, I was under the impression that was project policy, or at least
allowed per project policy.

-- 
nathan

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  1. Suppress "has no symbols" linker warnings on macOS.

  2. Fix two error messages in extended_stats_funcs.c