[IMPALA-6317] Expose -cmake_only flag to buildall.sh

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.11.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Epic Color: ghx-label-5
• Assignee: David Knupp
• Reporter: David Knupp
• Created: 13/Dec/17 07:16
• Updated: 29/May/18 16:44
• Resolved: 29/May/18 16:44

Description

Impala/bin/make_impala.sh has a -cmake_only command line option:

-cmake_only)
  CMAKE_ONLY=1

Passing this flag means that makefiles only will be generated during the build. However, this flag is not provided in buildall.sh (the caller of make_impala.sh) which effectively renders it useless.

It turns out that if one has no intention of running the Impala cluster locally (e.g., as when trying to build just enough of the toolchain and dev environment to run the data load scripts for loading data onto a remote cluster) then being able to only generate makefiles is a useful thing.