[MESOS-144] Statically linking binaries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benjamin Hindman
• Created: 30/Jan/12 21:22
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 09:27

Description

We build our binaries expecting to find libmesos.so on the shared library search path. In many environments /usr/local/lib is not on the shared library search path. That means users are required to update the search path for the system or launch the binaries with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Statically linking the binaries would fix this problem. In addition, we might be able to pass -R as a libtool specific LDFLAGS that does the right thing. Either way, it would be nice to make it easy for a user who is installing to not have to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH or need the permissions to update the system search path.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: MESOS-1754 Mesos static library has undefined symbols from 3rd party deps