> I think we probably need to make a firm decision about whether we're going > to try to support non-toolchain builds. In the past we've said that it would > be nice to allow building Impala with system libraries (even if we don't put > special effort into supporting it), but I don't think we've committed to the > idea, or committed to toolchain builds only. > > If we're going to support non-toolchain builds we would need some kind of > testing to prevent it breaking all the time. > > It would be nice to have, but I'm not sure anyone has the time/motivation to > do it. What do people think?
I agree that it would be nice to support non-toolchain builds, and I agree that we don't have the time for this right now. I would call this a lower priority than most of the other ASF infra transition work.
