On Jun 30, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> I'm guessing that this may not be the ONLY lib that has this
> problem --
> it's just the the one that's been discovered. Also, it seems possible
> that a user might have a similar problem with a lib that isn't
> Apple's.
>
Here's a list of Panther-Tiger incompatibilities I came up with when
working out Panther-compatible Tiger builds (not quite exhaustive,
mainly stuff that directly affected what I was doing):
• libSystem - some new symbols in tiger.
fdatasync (have declaration, but not function in Tiger)
getpeereid
___stdoutp
_statvfs
Solution: use alternate functions somehow (ie postgres configure
detects getpeereid and uses something else if not found)
• libncurses & friends
libncurses.5.dylib in panther, back compat copy in tiger
libncurses.5.4.dylib in tiger, compat ver 5.4.0
solution: force stuff to build with older lib
linklib = /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/usr/lib/libpanel.5.dylib
/usr/lib/libmenu.5.dylib
/usr/lib/libform.5.dylib
• libtermcap
is a symlink to libncurses, so same problem & solution
• libbz2
static-only in panther, dynamic-only in Tiger, but same version
solution: provide own libbz2, or link with libbz2.a in the 10.3.9 SDK
• libcurl.3
v2 in panther, Tiger has v2 symlinked to v3
Solution: provide own libcurl, or link to libcurl in 10.3.9 SDK
(headers also)
• LDAP fw
same version, but ber_pvt_opt_on is in tiger copy
solution: use LDAP framework from 10.3.9 SDK
had to do this for PHP, but haven't tested it yet
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