On 2011-04-25 13:42, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2011-04-23 12:06, Bruce Cran wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:57:26 +0200 >> Filip Sneppe <filip.sneppe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> (I am not subscribed to this list, nor am I a Unix developer). >>> >>> I wanted to give fio a try on my OS X 10.5.8 machine, but >>> this is the error I received when compiling: >>> >>> CC helpers.o >>> CC engines/posixaio.o >>> DEP depend >>> CC fio >>> Undefined symbols: >>> "_posix_memalign", referenced from: >>> _thread_main in fio.o >>> ld: symbol(s) not found >>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >>> make: *** [fio] Error 1 >>> >>> After some googling, I learned that OS X doesn't >>> provide _posix_memalign, and that apparently it's not >>> needed on this platform. I "fixed" my compile problem with the >>> attached patch. You may find it useful to write a better fix for this. >> >> I think Apple have added it in 10.6, but obviously fio needs to run on >> older versions too. > > Solaris has a helper, too. Does 10.6 have memalign or another > alternative function? We only use it for io_u allocations outside of places where we do have posix_memalign() support. I just added a simpler malloc() wrapper that aligns for that purpose, so we don't use posix_memalign() in the core code anymore. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
