[AVRO-829] Enhance the build.sh script to support building a subset of the available language bindings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: build

Environment

POSIX compatible operating systems.

• Tags: build
• Assignee: Joseph Koshy
• Reporter: Joseph Koshy
• Created: 26/May/11 11:51
• Updated: 01/Jun/11 08:39

Description

Avro supports a number of language bindings, currently: c, c++, c#, java, ruby, php, python.

The top level build script (build.sh) attempts to build all language bindings by default. Thus, building Avro from source requires compilers and interpreters for all these languages to be present on a developer's system.

The attached patch adds support for a -l LANG option to build.sh, allowing the build to be restricted to the specified language(s). This feature allows someone interested in just a few bindings to build only the relevant parts of the Avro source tree.