[IMPALA-3028] Use linker from toolchain

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.5.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.7.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Labels: toolchain
• Target Version: Impala 2.7.0
• Assignee: Jim Apple
• Reporter: Tim Armstrong
• Created: 18/Feb/16 22:38
• Updated: 13/Oct/16 15:24
• Resolved: 13/Oct/16 15:24

Description

Currently we always use the system linker to link Impala binaries. We should include a linker in our toolchain so that our builds are more reproducible and consistent. This will also allow use to switch to ld.gold, a faster linker, by default, without concerns about what system version we will pick up (see http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/2093/). GNU binutils includes both ld and ld.gold

Issue Links

• is blocked by: IMPALA-3507 Very slow linking with toolchain linker on centos and ubuntu