[IMPALA-12070] Don't build bison and autotools in the native-toolchain

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 4.3.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 4.3.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Epic Color: ghx-label-8
• Assignee: Joe McDonnell
• Reporter: Joe McDonnell
• Created: 17/Apr/23 17:18
• Updated: 20/Apr/23 16:10
• Resolved: 20/Apr/23 16:10

Description

The native-toolchain builds autoconf, automake, libtool, and bison. However, these are completely unnecessary. These utilities are installed into the docker images used for the build, and almost all components use the utilities from OS rather than the toolchain.

The only exceptions to this are pieces of old code that have been sitting around for 5+ years.

We should stop building these as part of the toolchain. This helps reduce the references to GPL code in the repository.