Since updating to Xcode 15.0, my macOS machines have been
spitting a bunch of linker-generated warnings. There
seems to be one instance of
ld: warning: -multiply_defined is obsolete
for each loadable module we link, and some program links complain
ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-lpgcommon', '-lpgport'
You can see these in the build logs for both sifaka [1] and
indri [2], so MacPorts isn't affecting it.
I'd held out some hope that this was a transient problem due to
the underlying OS still being Ventura, but I just updated another
machine to shiny new Sonoma (14.0), and it's still doing it.
Guess we gotta do something about it.
We used to need "-multiply_defined suppress" to suppress other
linker warnings. I tried removing that from the Makefile.shlib
recipes for Darwin, and those complaints go away while no new
ones appear, so that's good --- but I wonder whether slightly
older toolchain versions will still want it.
As for the duplicate libraries, yup guilty as charged, but
I think we were doing that intentionally to satisfy some other
old toolchains. I wonder whether removing the duplication
will create new problems.
regards, tom lane
[1] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=sifaka&dt=2023-09-26%2021%3A09%3A01&stg=build
[2] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=indri&dt=2023-09-26%2021%3A42%3A17&stg=build