[IMPALA-1925] Evaluate whether any target platform still needs to link against -mt Boost libs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.2
• Fix Version/s: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Martin Grund
• Reporter: Henry Robinson
• Created: 28/Mar/15 22:34
• Updated: 18/May/15 22:04
• Resolved: 18/May/15 22:04

Description

Impala links against regex-mt, filesystem-mt and system-mt from Boost. On newer distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), the -mt libraries have been removed since the base libraries are thread-safe. This means Impala won't build on those systems without either a code change, or a symlink from the base libraries to their -mt equivalents.

We should figure out if any of our supported platforms require linking against -mt, and if not, update the linker script.