[HADOOP-7868] Hadoop native fails to compile when default linker option is -Wl,--as-needed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0, 2.0.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0, 2.0.2-alpha, 0.23.6
• Component/s: native

Environment

Ubuntu Precise, Ubuntu Oneiric, Debian Unstable

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Trevor Robinson
• Reporter: James Page
• Created: 29/Nov/11 11:28
• Updated: 28/Jul/13 05:20
• Resolved: 25/Jun/12 18:22

Description

Recent releases of Ubuntu and Debian have switched to using --as-needed as default when linking binaries.

As a result the AC_COMPUTE_NEEDED_DSO fails to find the required DSO names during execution of configure resulting in a build failure.

Explicitly using "Wl,-no-as-needed" in this macro when required resolves this issue.

See http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking for a few more details

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: BIGTOP-280 Hadoop native fails to compile with default linker option of --as-needed
• is duplicated by: HADOOP-8196 avoid linker's stripping of dead code from interfering with configure's library name resolution
• is related to: BIGTOP-280 Hadoop native fails to compile with default linker option of --as-needed
• is related to: HADOOP-7979 Native code: configure LDFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to fix the build on systems like Ubuntu 11.10