Re: [BUG?] macOS (Intel) build warnings: "ranlib: file … has no symbols" for aarch64 objects

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] macOS (Intel) build warnings: "ranlib: file … has no symbols" for aarch64 objects
Date: 2026-04-28 14:09:09
Message-ID: afC_haf7bXWHb6e9@nathan
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 09:29:41AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> If we do care, a low-tech solution could be to have a dummy symbol
> declared in each file, along the lines of
>
> #if HAVE_X86_64_POPCNTQ
> // code for popcntq case
> #elif HAVE_FROBNITZ
> // code for frobnitz case
> ...
> #else
> /* prevent linker complaints about empty module */
> extern int pg_cpu_x86_dummy_variable;
> int pg_cpu_x86_dummy_variable = 0;
> #endif
>
> Actually then we'd not need to change the build systems either...

I've been trying to avoid doing that, but it's a far simpler solution, and
in theory it should fix the problem for all platforms, too. So, it's
probably the way to go.

--
nathan

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