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[Justin Swanhart <greenlion@xxxxxxxxx>]

You don't have hardware to work on your own supported platform? Or you
can't figure it out?

Smh.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 10:36 PM Daniel Black <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Mac lovers (who can use C/C++ and a debugger),
>
> As your MariaDB developers are hard at work getting 10.5 ready for you,
> unfortunately a bug has slipped into the 10.5 branch making it unusable on
> OSX (at least that's what it looks like on the CI infrastructure).
>
> The bug report is here:
>
> https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-22173
>
> As the time of developers is a little short as is the availability of OSX
> hardware, I'm hoping some of you are able to spend a few hours tackling
> this task to understand it better, and if possible, create patch.
>
> Steps:
>  1. build environment
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/Build_Environment_Setup_for_Mac/
>  2. clone the source
> git clone --branch 10.5 https://github.com/MariaDB/server.git
> mariadb-server
> cd mariadb-server
> git submodule update --recursive --init
>  3. build instructions
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/generic-build-instructions/ (you don't need to
> install)
>  4. test (from build directory)
>   mysql-test/mysql-test-run  main.select
>
> might be useful here:
>
> --debugger=NAME or --gdb
> client-debugger=NAME or client-gdb
>
>
> To collaborative share your findings and to ask for further help MariaDB's
> community chat stream has been created for you.
>
>
> https://mariadb.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/118759-general/topic/Get.20OSX.20working.20on.2010.2E5.20-.20MDEV-22173
>
> To paraphrase J.F.Kennedy
>
> ask not what your database server community can do for you — ask what you
> can do for your database server community.
>
>
> Keep the community spirit going,
>
> Daniel Black
> --
> Sent as a community member who noticed OSX failures and that everyone is
> busy
>
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