[ORC-1440] Check for protobuf config based module

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Nehal Jagdish Wani
• Reporter: Nehal Jagdish Wani
• Created: 04/Jun/23 10:43
• Updated: 08/Mar/24 17:33
• Resolved: 10/Jun/23 05:17

Description

What:
At the moment, the build on Windows fails with: failure.win.txt

Why:
The recent version of `libprotobuf` generates code that depends on `abseil`. It can lead to issues for downstream consumers of the library. Example: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/11920

Potential Resolution:

The `orc::protobuf` interface target depends on our hand-rolled find module for `libprotobuf`. The recent versions of `libprotobuf` provide their own CMake configs. We can check for the existence of the config and use the hand-rolled version as a fallback.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1529