From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc: Filip Sneppe <filip.sneppe@gmail.com>, fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] [PATCH] Undefined symbols: "_posix_memalign" on Mac OS X
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:42:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB55E3C.1040305@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110423110636.00004ef3@unknown>
On 2011-04-23 12:06, Bruce Cran wrote:
> 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.
Solaris has a helper, too. Does 10.6 have memalign or another
alternative function?
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-25 11:42 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
2011-04-25 11:42 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-04-25 18:51 ` Jens Axboe
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