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Joe McDonnell commented on IMPALA-5490:
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I spent a few cycles trying an approach where I continued to build the
toolchain with gcc-4.9.2 and then added a standalone build of gcc-7.4. This
lets you build Impala with gcc-7.4 (specifying the old ABI) without needing a
full toolchain rebuild. This works, up to a point. Here is my experience with
it:
# On Ubuntu16, we suggest prepending /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will need to change, because our libstdc++ is now newer
than the one on Ubuntu16. We need to be our libstdc++, not the system one. This
is true for other approaches.
# With some minor changes, everything compiles and links with gcc 7.4 when it
is the only compiler.
# The build on gcc-7.4 breaks if gcc-4.9.2 is present. This is because the
native toolchain components have relative symlinks to gcc-4.9.2's libstdc++.
For example, we put snappy on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and it has a symlink to
gcc-4.9.2's libstdc++. When gcc-4.9.2 is not in the toolchain, the symlink
doesn't matter, but the moment we download gcc-4.9.2, it causes havoc. There
may be some workarounds (put libstdc++ early in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH?).
Given #3, this approach is not significantly better than alternative approaches
given that we would still need to switch to the new ABI.
> Upgrade to GCC 7.x or greater
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> Key: IMPALA-5490
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-5490
> Project: IMPALA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Infrastructure
> Reporter: Tim Armstrong
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: 0001-Switch-to-gcc7.patch
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>
> This has some nice features like the [[nodiscard]] annotation.
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