[KUDU-2492] Kudu no longer builds on older Linux versions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Thomas Tauber-Marshall
• Created: 05/Jul/18 23:34
• Updated: 17/Jul/18 18:15
• Resolved: 17/Jul/18 18:15

Description

A recent commit to Kudu, "rpc: add experimental rpc_reuseport flag", added the use of the rpc flag SO_REUSEREPORT

This flag is not available with older versions of Linux, resulting in the compiler error:

In file included from kudu/src/kudu/util/net/socket.h:24:0,
                 from kudu/src/kudu/util/net/socket.cc:18:
kudu/src/kudu/util/net/socket.cc: In member function ‘kudu::Status kudu::Socket::SetReusePort(bool)’:
kudu/src/kudu/util/net/socket.cc:249:48: error: ‘SO_REUSEPORT’ was not declared in this scope
   RETURN_NOT_OK_PREPEND(SetSockOpt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEPORT, int_flag),
                                                ^
kudu/src/kudu/util/status.h:43:33: note: in definition of macro ‘KUDU_RETURN_NOT_OK_PREPEND’
     const ::kudu::Status& _s = (s);                              \                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                 ^
kudu/src/kudu/util/net/socket.cc:249:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘RETURN_NOT_OK_PREPEND’
   RETURN_NOT_OK_PREPEND(SetSockOpt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEPORT, int_flag),
   ^
[ 36%] Building CXX object src/kudu/util/CMakeFiles/kudu_util_exported.dir/mutex.cc.o
make[2]: *** [src/kudu/util/CMakeFiles/kudu_util.dir/net/socket.cc.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This is in particular a problem for Impala's toolchain, which attempts and now fails to build Kudu on centos 6.4, ubuntu 12.04, and debian 7.