[IMPALA-9999] Update Impala to use GCC 9 or higher

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 4.2.0
• Component/s: Backend, Infrastructure
• Epic Color: ghx-label-11
• Assignee: Joe McDonnell
• Reporter: Joe McDonnell
• Created: 23/Jul/20 17:38
• Updated: 20/Dec/22 19:14
• Resolved: 20/Dec/22 18:33

Description

Impala recently updated to use GCC 7.5. This got past the major ABI changes, so it makes sense to keep going and update to even more recent versions of GCC. This tracks the tasks necessary to switch to GCC 9.2 or above (which is already available in the toolchain).

Issue Links

• breaks: IMPALA-11599 GCC 10 toolchain's gdb won't run on older distributions
• breaks: IMPALA-11605 IMPALA-9999's upgrade of flatbuffers to 1.12 causes a conflict with Hive
• causes: IMPALA-11716 bin/coverage_helper.sh doesn't work
• is related to: IMPALA-11225 Upgrade breakpad to a more recent version