MySQL Bugs: #41270: Configure fails when including Falcon on Mac OS X

Bug #41270	Configure fails when including Falcon on Mac OS X
Submitted:	5 Dec 2008 19:45	Modified:	13 Dec 2008 10:00
Reporter:	Olav Sandstå	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Falcon storage engine	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	6.0.8-alpha	OS:	MacOS
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	F_PLATFORM, pushbuild

Description:
When trying to run configure on Mac OS X and including support for Falcon it fails with the following written:

checking compiler flag to enable implicit templates... -fimplicit-templates
checking compiler flag to enable exceptions... -fexceptions -lstdc++
checking linker flag to enable STL... -lstdc++
checking compiler flag to silence offsetof warnings... -Wno-invalid-offsetof
checking if compiler and compiler options support C++ exceptions for Falcon... no
Falcon must be compiled with support for C++ exceptions enabled.
Please adjust your compiler flags or disable support for Falcon (--without-plugin-falcon).

How to repeat:
Run configure with support for Falcon, e.g.:

  configure --with-falcon

Suggested fix:
Configure should not fail given correct options to the C++ compiler to include support for C++ exceptions.

C++ code for test compiled and linked by configure

Attachment: conftest.cc (text/x-c++src), 7.76 KiB.

I have attached the C++ file that configure is trying to compile and link. This is named conftest.cc.

Configure uses the following command to compile and link this file:

ccache gcc -o conftest -Wno-invalid-offsetof -fimplicit-templates -fexceptions -lstdc++ -D_DEBUG   conftest.cc -lm

According to the config.log file, this fails with the following error:

ld: Undefined symbols:
typeinfo for int
___cxa_allocate_exception
___cxa_begin_catch
___cxa_end_catch
___cxa_throw
___gxx_personality_v0

There is a report of a linking problem for Falcon on MAC OS X, see bug #40680.

The reason for submitting this report is that they are not identical, particularly not in what is suggested as a solution for bug #40680. In bug #40680 the solution/workaround is suggested to be to add:

  -fexceptions 

when linking mysqld with Falcon. In the failing command in this bug -fexceptions is included.

This problem started to occur after a patch for bug #39419 was checked into the source code. This code extends configure to do an explicit check for that the compiler with the given compiler settings and options are able to compile, link and run successfully a program that includes C++ exceptions.

So this patch should catch a situation like this where linking with C++ exceptions fails.

Workaround:

Changing from setting CXX=gcc to setting CXX=g++ makes the command run by configure to compile and link successfully.

Building 6.0 is not supported with CXX=gcc.  Falcon, in particular, requires full C++ support (including exceptions).

I'm closing this as Not a Bug.

Regards,

Timothy

Setting
    CXX=g++

fixes this problem. Setting to "Documenting".

A note has been added to the 6.0.8 changelog: 

Compiling using --with-falcon on Mac OS X fails if you use CXX=gcc. You must specify that the g++ compiler should be used for C++ using CXX=g++.