Even *I* don't attempt to support OS X that old.  :wink:

-Paul

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:41 AM Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via devel <
devel@lists.open-mpi.org> wrote:

> Fun fact: we cause configure to fail for OS X <= 10.4 anyway:
>
>     https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/blob/master/configure.ac#L328-L347
>
> According to the comment, we do this because of a known-bad implementation
> of pty in the OS X kernel that causes kernel panics.
>
> So I think we're definitely safe removing a OS X 10.4.x workaround.
>
>
> > On Sep 28, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Ralph H Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> >
> > Good lord - break away!!
> >
> >> On Sep 28, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Barrett, Brian via devel <
> devel@lists.open-mpi.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> All -
> >>
> >> In trying to clean up some warnings, I noticed one (around pack/unpack
> in net/if.h) that is due to a workaround of a bug in MacOS X 10.4.x and
> earlier.  The simple way to remove the warning would be to remove the
> workaround, which would break the next major version of Open MPI on 10.4.x
> and earlier on 64 bit systems.  10.5.x was released 11 years ago and didn’t
> drop support for any 64 bit systems.  I posted a PR which removes support
> for 10.4.x and earlier (through the README) and removes the warning
> generated workaround (https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/pull/5803).
> >>
> >> Does anyone object to breaking 10.4.x and earlier?
> >>
> >> Brian
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