GauthamBanasandra commented on code in PR #5066:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/5066#discussion_r1002660030


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BUILDING.txt:
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@@ -540,6 +564,11 @@ configure the bit-ness of the build, and set several 
optional components.
 Several tests require that the user must have the Create Symbolic Links
 privilege.
 
+To simplify the installation of Boost, Protocol buffers, OpenSSL and Zlib 
dependencies we can use
+vcpkg (https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git). Upon cloning the vcpkg repo, 
checkout the commit
+7ffa425e1db8b0c3edf9c50f2f3a0f25a324541d to get the required versions of the 
dependencies

Review Comment:
   > Why not a specific branch or latest?
   
   I couldn't find a branch/release in vcpkg where all these dependencies are 
at the required versions. Thus, we're using this specific commit.
   
   > It would also be good to add the command.
   
   Done.



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