[HADOOP-9329] document native build dependencies in BUILDING.txt

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0-beta

Release Note

Added a section to BUILDING.txt on how to install required / optional packages on a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop.

Went through the CMakeLists.txt files in the repo and added the following optional library dependencies - Snappy, Bzip2, Linux FUSE and Jansson.

Updated the required packages / version numbers from the trunk branch version of BUILDING.txt.

• Assignee: Vijay Bhat
• Reporter: Colin McCabe
• Created: 22/Feb/13 23:16
• Updated: 24/Apr/15 22:49
• Resolved: 19/Mar/15 02:16

Description

BUILDING.txt describes -Pnative, but it does not specify what native libraries are needed for the build. We should address this.

Issue Links

• relates to: HDFS-4484 libwebhdfs compilation broken with gcc 4.6.2