[SPARK-7839] Augment build environment to support native libraries with SparkR

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Component/s: SparkR
• Labels: bulk-closed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
• Created: 23/May/15 01:05
• Updated: 21/May/19 04:14
• Resolved: 21/May/19 04:14

Description

Right now (SparkR 1.4.0) we don't use native libraries (i.e. C code) from SparkR and our build works across platforms. However if we wish to use native code to do things like hashCode efficiently we need to figure out how to package them into the build appropriately.