[ARROW-8587] [C++] Compilation error when linking arrow-flight-perf-server

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Benchmarking, C++, FlightRPC
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Environment: Linux HP 5.3.0-46-generic #38~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 31 04:17:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24752
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Chengxin Ma
• Created: 24/Apr/20 16:25
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:01
• Resolved: 14/Jun/20 18:24

Description

I wanted to play around with Flight benchmark after seeing the discussion regarding Flight's throughput in arrow dev mailing list today.

I met the following error when trying to build the benchmark from latest source code:

[ 95%] Linking CXX executable ../../../debug/arrow-flight-perf-server
../../../debug/libarrow_flight_testing.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::canonical(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight_testing.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `boost::system::system_category()'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight_testing.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::parent_path() const'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `deflate'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `deflateEnd'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight_testing.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight_testing.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::current_path(boost::system::error_code*)'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `inflateInit2_'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `inflate'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `deflateInit2_'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `inflateEnd'
../../../debug/libarrow_flight_testing.so.18.0.0: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::operator/=(boost::filesystem::path const&)'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
src/arrow/flight/CMakeFiles/arrow-flight-perf-server.dir/build.make:154: recipe for target 'debug/arrow-flight-perf-server' failed
make[2]: *** [debug/arrow-flight-perf-server] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2609: recipe for target 'src/arrow/flight/CMakeFiles/arrow-flight-perf-server.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [src/arrow/flight/CMakeFiles/arrow-flight-perf-server.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:140: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I was using cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DARROW_DEPENDENCY_SOURCE=AUTO -DARROW_FLIGHT=ON -DARROW_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=ON -DARROW_CXXFLAGS="-lboost_filesystem -lboost_system" to configure the build.
I noticed that there was a ARROW_BOOST_BUILD_VERSION: 1.71.0 in the output, but the Boost library that I installed from the package manger was of this version: 1.65.1.0ubuntu1. Could this be the cause of the problem?

PS:
I was able to build the benchmark before. It was on AWS with the OS being ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-20191002, which should be very similar to the one I'm using on my laptop.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7031