[BIGTOP-2552] Building Greenplum on Ubuntu fails due to the lack of dependent libraries

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Bug
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kengo Seki
• Created: 08/Oct/16 16:20
• Updated: 05/Nov/16 15:36
• Resolved: 05/Nov/16 15:36

Description

I tried ./gradlew gpdb-deb on Ubuntu 16.04, but it fails with the following error:

sekikn@ubuntu:~/bigtop$ ./gradlew gpdb-deb

(snip)

make[1]: Entering directory '/home/sekikn/bigtop/output/gpdb/gpdb-4.3.99.0'
bash debian/do-component-configure /usr/lib/gpdb
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/gpdb

(snip)

checking for apr-1-config... no
configure: error: apr-1-config is required for gpfdist, unable to find binary
debian/rules:32: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_configure' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sekikn/bigtop/output/gpdb/gpdb-4.3.99.0'
debian/rules:27: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1376:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b
 failed
:gpdb-deb FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/home/sekikn/bigtop/packages.gradle' line: 310

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':gpdb-deb'.
> Process 'command 'debuild'' finished with non-zero exit value 29

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 13.709 secs

Eventually it required the following packages installed: libapr1-dev, libevent-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, bison, flex.