[THRIFT-4874] Thrift 0.12.0 Source Distribution (.tar.gz) Contains Hardlinks - Extract Fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Build Process
• Assignee: Jens Geyer
• Reporter: Daniel Jewell
• Created: 27/May/19 00:18
• Updated: 16/Oct/19 22:28
• Resolved: 09/Oct/19 23:52

Description

Hello!

The source release tarball of Thrift contains hardlinks - which makes it impossible to extract on a platform where you cannot create hardlinks (e.g. on a non-root Android device). (e.g. the archive was not created with --hard-dereference) 

I discovered this as a knock-on effect of trying to build Apache Arrow C++ on Android (in Termux)... The build fails because the Thrift tarball can't be extracted because of the hardlinks.

Best,

-Daniel 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1894
• links to: Gnu automake bug#19616: dist tarball contains hardlinks