[HADOOP-8364] Rationalize the way architecture-specific sub-components are built with ant in branch-1

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Target Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Giridharan Kesavan
• Reporter: Matthew Foley
• Created: 06/May/12 21:02
• Updated: 15/May/15 17:58
• Resolved: 15/May/15 17:58

Description

Three different compile flags, compile.native, compile.c++, and compile.libhdfs, turn on or off different architecture-specific subcomponent builds, but they are generally all off or all on and there's no evident need for three different ways to do things. Also, in build.xml, jsvc and task-controller are included in targets "package" and "bin-package" as sub-ant tasks, while librecordio is included as a simple dependency. We should work through these and get them done in one understandable way.

This is a matter of maintainability and understandability, and therefore robustness under future changes in build.xml. No substantial change in functionality is proposed.

Issue Links

• incorporates: HADOOP-8307 The task-controller is not packaged in the tarball
• incorporates: HDFS-3316 jsvc should be listed as a dependency for "package" and "bin-package"