Benjamin Hindman created MESOS-1071:
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Summary: Enable building against installed third-party
dependencies.
Key: MESOS-1071
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1071
Project: Mesos
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: build
Reporter: Benjamin Hindman
Most of our third-party dependencies are included in the project and statically
linked into our resulting binaries and libraries. We would like to enable
building Mesos but using system installed dependencies instead.
In certain circumstances this is more difficult because we've actually needed
to "patch" these libraries (either for C++11 or to alter semantics).
Rather than eliminating our internal copies of these third-party dependencies
the first step should be to just enable using external (i.e., system installed)
dependencies. We already do this for ZooKeeper by allowing people to use the
--without-included-zookeeper flag during compilation. We should do this for
other libraries as well. In fact, for the libraries that we have not patched
(and even for some that we have patched) we should check to see if an
appropriate system installed dependency exists and preferentially use that
unless --with-included-dependency is explicitly used.
Note that this issue represents a stepping stone to removing our third-party
dependencies from our repository.
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