We could also call "uname" from test-patch.sh and skip running native tests on Mac OS X.
I also think that HADOOP-7147 should be open rather than "won't fix," as Alejandro commented. Allen Wittenauer closed it as "won't fix" because he personally did not intend to fix it, but that doesn't mean it's not a bug. cheers. Colin On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Yea we want jenkins to run with native. How about adding making native > optional in test-patch via a flag and updating the jenkins jobs to use > it? > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> Makes sense, though the Jenkins runs should continue to run w/ native, right? >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Hemanth Yamijala <yhema...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The test-patch script in Hadoop source runs a native compile with the >>> patch. On platforms like MAC, there are issues with the native >>> compile. For e.g we run into HADOOP-7147 that has been resolved as >>> Won't fix. >>> >>> Hence, should we have a switch in test-patch to not run native compile >>> ? Could open a JIRA and fix, if that's OK ? >>> >>> Thanks >>> hemanth >> >> >> >> -- >> Alejandro