A little while ago, the pltcl tests starting crashing for me on macOS.
I don't know what had changed, but I suspect it was either an operating
system update or something like an xcode update.
Here is a backtrace:
* frame #0: 0x00007ff7b0e61853
frame #1: 0x00007ff803a28751 libsystem_c.dylib`hash_search + 215
frame #2: 0x0000000110357700
pltcl.so`compile_pltcl_function(fn_oid=16418, tgreloid=0,
is_event_trigger=false, pltrusted=true) at pltcl.c:1418:13
frame #3: 0x0000000110355d50
pltcl.so`pltcl_func_handler(fcinfo=0x00007fb6f1817028,
call_state=0x00007ff7b0e61b80, pltrusted=true) at pltcl.c:814:12
...
Note that the hash_search call goes into some system library, not postgres.
The command to link pltcl is:
gcc ... -ltcl8.6 -lz -lpthread -framework CoreFoundation -lc
-bundle_loader ../../../src/backend/postgres
Notice the -lc in there. If I remove that, it works again.
The -lc is explicitly added in src/pl/tcl/Makefile, so it's our own
doing. I tracked this back, and it's been moved and rearranged in that
makefile a number of time. The original addition was
commit e3909672f12e0ddf3e202b824fda068ad2195ef2
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon Dec 14 00:46:49 1998
Build pltcl.so correctly on platforms that want dependent
shared libraries to be listed in the link command.
Has anyone else seen this?
Note, I'm using the tcl-tk package from Homebrew. The tcl installation
provided by macOS itself no longer appears to work for linking against.