Hi, Do we see any solution to this issue? or using the older SDK is the way to go?
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:04 PM Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:58 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: >> > I'll move it when committing. I'll let this patch sit for another day >> > to see if any other objections show up. >> >> FWIW, I remain fairly strongly against this, precisely because of the >> point that it requires us to start using a randomly different >> feature-probing technology anytime Apple decides that they're going to >> implement some standard API that they didn't before. Even if it works >> everywhere for preadv/pwritev (which we won't know in advance of >> buildfarm testing, and maybe not then, since detection failures will >> probably be silent), it seems likely that we'll hit some case in the >> future where this interacts badly with some other platform's weirdness. >> We haven't claimed in the past to support MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET, >> and I'm not sure we should start now. How many people actually care >> about that? >> > > I missed this earlier - it's come to my attention through a thread on the > -packagers list. Adding my response on that thread here for this audience: > > The ability to target older releases with a newer SDK is essential for > packages such as the EDB PostgreSQL installers and the pgAdmin community > installers. It's very difficult (sometimes impossible) to get older OS > versions on new machines now - Apple make it very hard to download old > versions of macOS (some can be found, others not), and they won't always > work on newer hardware anyway so it's really not feasible to have all the > build machines running the oldest version that needs to be supported. > > FYI, the pgAdmin and PG installer buildfarms have > -mmacosx-version-min=10.12 in CFLAGS etc. to handle this, which is > synonymous with MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET. We've been successfully building > packages that way for a decade or more. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: https://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com > > -- Sandeep Thakkar
