Re: pltcl crash on recent macOS

On 13.06.22 23:32, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hrmph, I changed my CC to "ccache gcc-mp-11" (what MacPorts calls GCC
> 11), and I still can't reproduce the problem. I still get "(from
> executable)". In your original quote you showed "gcc", not "gcc-11",
> which (assuming it is found as /usr/bin/gcc) is just a little binary
> that redirects to clang... trying that, this time without ccache in
> the mix... and still no cigar. So something is different about GCC 11
> from homebrew, or the linker invocation it produces under the covers,
> or the linker it's using?

The original quote said "gcc" but that just me attempting to simplify.
I have now also figured out that it works with gcc-10 but not with
gcc-11 and gcc-12. For example, below are the underlying linker
invocations from gcc-10 and gcc-11. Note that some of the options are
ordered quite differently. I don't know what all of that means yet, but
it surely points to something in gcc or its packaging being the cause.

However, I think ultimately the use of -lc is an error and we should get
rid of it. This episode shows that it's very fragile in any case.

"/usr/local/Cellar/gcc(at)10/10.3.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin20/10.3.0/collect2"
-dynamic -arch x86_64 -bundle -bundle_loader
../../../src/backend/postgres -macosx_version_min 11.4.0
-multiply_defined suppress -syslibroot
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk
-weak_reference_mismatches non-weak -o pltcl.so -L../../../src/port
-L../../../src/common -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/openldap/lib
"-L/usr/local/opt/openssl(at)1(dot)1/lib" -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib
-L/usr/local/opt/krb5/lib -L/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib
-L/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.14/lib
-L/usr/local/Cellar/lz4/1.9.3/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/zstd/1.5.2/lib
-L/usr/local/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.12_1/lib
"-L/usr/local/Cellar/gcc(at)10/10.3.0/lib/gcc/10/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin20/10.3.0"
"-L/usr/local/Cellar/gcc(at)10/10.3.0/lib/gcc/10/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin20/10.3.0/../../.."
pltcl.o -dead_strip_dylibs -ltcl8.6 -lz -framework CoreFoundation -lc
-lSystem -lgcc_ext.10.5 -lgcc -lSystem -no_compact_unwind -idsym

/usr/local/Cellar/gcc/11.3.0_1/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin21/11/collect2
-dynamic -arch x86_64 -syslibroot
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk
-macosx_version_min 12.4.0 -o pltcl.so -L../../../src/port
-L../../../src/common -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/openldap/lib
"-L/usr/local/opt/openssl(at)1(dot)1/lib" -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib
-L/usr/local/opt/krb5/lib -L/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib
-L/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.14/lib
-L/usr/local/Cellar/lz4/1.9.3/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/zstd/1.5.2/lib
-L/usr/local/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.12_1/lib
-L/usr/local/Cellar/gcc/11.3.0_1/bin/../lib/gcc/11/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin21/11
-L/usr/local/Cellar/gcc/11.3.0_1/bin/../lib/gcc/11/gcc
-L/usr/local/Cellar/gcc/11.3.0_1/bin/../lib/gcc/11/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin21/11/../../..
pltcl.o -dead_strip_dylibs -ltcl8.6 -lz -lc -bundle_loader
../../../src/backend/postgres -bundle -framework CoreFoundation
-multiply_defined suppress -lemutls_w -lgcc -lSystem -no_compact_unwind
-idsym