Regards,
Sinisa
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:09:35 -0700, kledzik@stripped said:
> I posted this to the 'internals' list a few weeks ago, but looks like the listserv
> was not working then. Just a little more info on Darwin and Mac OS X.
>
> -Nick
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Although I work at Apple, I've been interested in trying to use mySQL for a personal
> project. I download the sources for 3.23.24-beta, and after a lot of wrestling and got it
> running on Mac OS X (public beta). I'd like to feed back my changes, so no one else will
> need to go through the porting pain.
>
> First off, to clarify: "Mac OS X" and "Mac OS X Server" and very different
> platforms. mySQL currently does compile on Mac OS X Server (previously known as
> Rhapsody). What I did was get it building on Mac OS X, which Apple recently had a public
> beta release. There have been a few posts to this list in the past that have helped out.
>
> 1) strtol is built-in in Mac OS X. mySQL builds its own implementation of the
> function into libmysqlclient.a. The result is any client software fails on launch because
> strtol is defined twice. Simply conditionalizing strtol.c did not work. For some reason
> strto.c (which is included by strtol.c and strtoll.c etc) was compiled on its own and
> since if LONGLONG and UNSIGNED are undefined it compiles into strtol. It seems like the
> correct fix is somewhere in the makefiles (strto.c should never be compiled on its own).
> My fix was to change strto.c from:
>
> #define function longtype strtolXXX
>
> to:
>
> #ifdef __APPLE_CC__
> #define function longtype strtolXXX
> #else
> #define function longtype strtol
> #endif
>
>
> 2) The file sql_cache.cc does not compile with Apple's gcc on Mac OS X. I tracked
> this down to a compiler bug and reported it. The compiler problem is a codegen problem
> with >32K static array initialization when the array contains C++ classes that use
> templates... Since the cache array does not seem to be used, I changed sql_cache.cc
> from:
>
> #define SQL_CACHE_LENGTH 300
>
> to:
> #ifdef __APPLE_CC__
> #define SQL_CACHE_LENGTH 30
> #else
> #define SQL_CACHE_LENGTH 300
> #endif
>
>
> 3) Unlike Mac OS X Server, Mac OS X does support pthreads, but not the full set that
> mySQL expects. I added the following to my_pthread.h. (based on another posting to this
> list). Note: __APPLE_CC__ is a conditional built in to the gcc compiler on Mac OS X.
>
> diff -r mysql-3.23.24-beta/include/my_pthread.h
> mysql-3.23.24-beta.my/include/my_pthread.h
> 381a382,397
> > #if __APPLE_CC__
> > #define pthread_condattr_init(A) pthread_dummy(0)
> > #define pthread_condattr_destroy(A) pthread_dummy(0)
> > #define pthread_cond_init( A, B ) pthread_cond_init( (A), 0 )
> > #define pthread_kill(A,B) pthread_dummy(0)
> > #define pthread_sigmask(A,B,C) sigprocmask((A),(B),(C))
> > #undef pthread_detach_this_thread
> > #define pthread_detach_this_thread() { pthread_t tmp=pthread_self() ;
> pthread_detach(tmp); }
> > #ifdef sigset
> > #undef sigset
> > #define sigset(A,B) signal((A),(B))
> > #endif
> > #endif
>
> 4) In the configuration script, it's not clear to me how $ac_cv_prog_gcc is set up.
> But Apple's gcc on Mac OS X does not support -O6 only -O.
>
> if test "$ac_cv_prog_gcc" = "yes"
> then
> DEBUG_CFLAGS="-g"
> DEBUG_OPTIMIZE_CC="-O"
> OPTIMIZE_CFLAGS="-O6" ## <-- does not work on Mac OS X, change to -O
> else
> DEBUG_CFLAGS="-g"
> DEBUG_OPTIMIZE_CC=""
> OPTIMIZE_CFLAGS="-O"
> fi
>
>
> 5) To distingush between Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server in config.guess, the uname
> values are:
>
> uname option Mac OS X Mac OS X Server
> ----------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------------+
> -s Darwin Rhapsody
> -r 1.2 5.6
> -m Power Macintosh Power Macintosh
>
> config.guess should be updated to recognize Mac OS X as a target.
>
>
> -Nick
>
>
Hi!
Thank yhou for your contribution !!
