On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Mikhail Bautin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We currently do not enable native Hadoop libraries in unit tests (at least > when running on Hadoop QA), but we do use them in production. Should we > try to close this discrepancy between tests and production? Some possible > approaches would be: > > - Enable native libraries by default (e.g. import libhadoop.so into a > special location in the HBase repository and add > -Djava.library.path=/that/path to unit test JVM options). > - In addition to the above, modify some unit tests (e.g. those using > Gzip compression) to run both with and without native libraries enabled > > Please let me know if this sounds reasonable. >
We used to be careful w/ native libs to ensure they were present and hbase would use them if available but we let that drop a couple of versions ago and haven't picked it up since. Thanks for reviving them Mikhail. I can help making sure works on apache build box. St.Ack
