I recently bumped the Breakpad version in the toolchain repo and now would
like to pull that into master. The change to do so is here:
https://gerrit.cloudera.org/#/c/6883/

Should I wait until gflags has been pulled into master and rebase? Or would
you like me to bump gflags in my change, too?

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm about to start the process of getting IMPALA-5174 committed to the
> toolchain. This patch changes gflags to allow 'hidden' flags that won't
> show up on /varz etc.
>
> The toolchain glog has a dependency on gflags, meaning that the installed
> glog library needs to be built against the installed gflag library. So when
> the new gflag gets pulled in, you will need the new glog as well.
>
> However, the toolchain scripts won't detect that anything has changed for
> glog, because there's no version number change (changing the toolchain
> build ID doesn't cause the toolchain scripts to invalidate dependencies).
>
> Rather than introduce a spurious version bump with an empty patch file or
> something, I figured in this case it's easiest to ask developers to
> manually delete their local glog, and then bin/bootstrap_toolchain.py will
> download the most recent glog that's built against gflag. This is a
> one-time thing.
>
> I'll send out instructions about how to do this when the toolchain is
> updated.
>

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