[PHOENIX-6806] Protobufs don't compile on ARM-based Macs (Apple Silicon)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.2.0, 5.1.3
• Assignee: Geoffrey Jacoby
• Reporter: Geoffrey Jacoby
• Created: 06/Oct/22 20:35
• Updated: 16/Nov/23 08:09
• Resolved: 10/Oct/22 12:50

Description

This is similar to PHOENIX-6475 for 64-bit Linux ARM. Maven will fail looking for an osx-aarch64 version of protoc 2.5.0

However, unlike in the Linux case, we have a good workaround that lets us keep using an official 2.5.0 binary.

MacOS versions that support Apple's ARM processors can run x64 code through a translation layer (with a perf hit). Therefore, we can change the phoenix-core pom to use the MacOS x86_64 version of protoc if it detects we're running osx-aarch64.

Unlike running all local development through an x64 JDK, which is very slow, protobuf compilation isn't a big part of the build / test time, so the perf hit for just emulating the protobuf compilation shouldn't be too bad.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-28208 Use x86_64 protoc 2.5.0 on Aarch64 Mac
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1515