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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: Filip Sneppe <filip.sneppe@gmail.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] [PATCH] Undefined symbols: "_posix_memalign" on Mac OS X
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:06:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110423110636.00004ef3@unknown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTiktKRjW235qUUFAMES88BbQXNc5cw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:57:26 +0200
Filip Sneppe <filip.sneppe@gmail.com> wrote:
 
> (I am not subscribed to this list, nor am I a Unix developer).
> 
> I wanted to give fio a try on my OS X 10.5.8 machine, but
> this is the error I received when compiling:
> 
>     CC helpers.o
>     CC engines/posixaio.o
>     DEP depend
>     CC fio
> Undefined symbols:
>   "_posix_memalign", referenced from:
>       _thread_main in fio.o
> ld: symbol(s) not found
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [fio] Error 1
> 
> After some googling, I learned that OS X doesn't
> provide _posix_memalign, and that apparently it's not
> needed on this platform. I "fixed" my compile problem with the
> attached patch. You may find it useful to write a better fix for this.

I think Apple have added it in 10.6, but obviously fio needs to run on
older versions too.

-- 
Bruce Cran

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-23 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-23  3:57 [BUG] [PATCH] Undefined symbols: "_posix_memalign" on Mac OS X Filip Sneppe
2011-04-23  9:42 ` Filip Sneppe
2011-04-23 10:06 ` Bruce Cran [this message]
2011-04-25 11:42   ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-25 18:51     ` Jens Axboe

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