[IMPALA-12288] Avoiding building all the backend tests when running a packaging build

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 4.3.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 3.4.2, Impala 4.3.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Epic Color: ghx-label-6
• Assignee: YifanZhang
• Reporter: Joe McDonnell
• Created: 14/Jul/23 23:34
• Updated: 12/Apr/24 09:47
• Resolved: 14/Aug/23 10:17

Description

When using the new packaging functionality in IMPALA-10262, the command "buildall.sh -package -release -notests" still builds all of the backend tests.

Currently, the "-notests" flag doesn't change the list of targets generated by CMake. Instead, "-notests" changes the make target that is built by buildall.sh. So, the test targets still exist, but they aren't built.

cpack seems to invoke a plain "make" with no target, and this builds everything including the tests.

To avoid this, we would need a mode that tells CMake to avoid generating the test targets altogether. This could be very useful for a packaging build, because the backend tests take up significant time and disk space to build.

Issue Links

• is related to: IMPALA-12762 Build package from scratch failed by cmake error
• relates to: IMPALA-10262 Linux Packaging Support