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Michael Smith c3dc7f9667 IMPALA-13147: Limit concurrency of link jobs
Configure separate compile and link pools for ninja. Configures link
parallelism based on expected memory use, which can be reduced by
setting IMPALA_MINIMAL_DEBUG_INFO=true or IMPALA_SPLIT_DEBUG_INFO=true.

Adds IMPALA_MAKE_CMD to simplify using the ninja build tool for all make
operations in scripts. Install ninja on Ubuntu. Adds a '-make' option to
buildall.sh to force using 'make'.

Adds MOLD_JOBS=1 to avoid overloading the system when trying 'mold' and
linking test binaries. However 'mold' is not selected as the default
due to test failures around SASL/GSSAPI (see IMPALA-14527).

Switches bin/jenkins/all-tests.sh to use ninja and removes the guard in
bootstrap_development.sh limiting IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS as it's no longer
needed with ninja.

SKIP_BE_TEST_PATTERN in run-backend-tests is unused (only used with
TARGET_FILESYSTEM=local) so I don't attempt to make it work with ninja.

Tested with local 'IMPALA_SPLIT_DEBUG_INFO=true buildall.sh -skiptests'
with default (make) and IMPALA_MAKE_CMD=ninja.

Change-Id: I0952dc19ace5c9c42bed0d2ffb61499656c0a2db
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/23572
Reviewed-by: Joe McDonnell <joemcdonnell@cloudera.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranav Lodha <pranav.lodha@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
2025-12-15 21:43:07 +00:00

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This document introduces the Impala project layout and some key configuration variables. Beware that it may become stale over time as the project evolves.

Detailed Build Notes

Impala can be built with pre-built components or components downloaded from S3. The components needed to build Impala are Apache Hadoop, Hive, and HBase. If you need to manually override the locations or versions of these components, you can do so through the environment variables and scripts listed below.

Scripts and directories

Location Purpose
bin/impala-config.sh This script must be sourced to setup all environment variables properly to allow other scripts to work
bin/impala-config-local.sh A script can be created in this location to set local overrides for any environment variables
bin/impala-config-branch.sh A version of the above that can be checked into a branch for convenience.
bin/bootstrap_build.sh A helper script to bootstrap some of the build requirements.
bin/bootstrap_development.sh A helper script to bootstrap a developer environment. Please read it before using.
be/build/ Impala build output goes here.
be/generated-sources/ Thrift and other generated source will be found here.
Environment variable Default value Description
IMPALA_HOME Top level Impala directory
IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN "${IMPALA_HOME}/toolchain" Native toolchain directory (for compilers, libraries, etc.)
SKIP_TOOLCHAIN_BOOTSTRAP "false" Skips downloading the toolchain any python dependencies if "true"
CDP_BUILD_NUMBER Identifier to indicate the CDP build number
CDP_COMPONENTS_HOME "${IMPALA_HOME}/toolchain/cdp_components-${CDP_BUILD_NUMBER}" Location of the CDP components within the toolchain.
CDH_MAJOR_VERSION "7" Identifier used to uniqueify paths for potentially incompatible component builds.
IMPALA_CONFIG_SOURCED "1" Set by ${IMPALA_HOME}/bin/impala-config.sh (internal use)
IMPALA_JDK_VERSION "" Set to 8+ to select a system Java version. Empty value uses JAVA_HOME, or sets it based on system defaults.
JAVA_HOME "" Uses Java from JAVA_HOME unless IMPALA_JDK_VERSION is set.
JAVA "${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java" Java binary location.
CLASSPATH See bin/set-classpath.sh for details.
PYTHONPATH See bin/set-pythonpath.sh for details.
USE_APACHE_COMPONENTS false Use Apache components for Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Tez, Ranger. It will set USE_APACHE_{HADOOP,HBASE,HIVE,TEZ,RANGER} variable as true if not set false.
USE_APACHE_HADOOP false Use Apache Hadoop
USE_APACHE_HBASE false Use Apache HBase
USE_APACHE_HIVE_3 false Use Apache Hive-3
USE_APACHE_TEZ false Use Apache Tez
USE_APACHE_RANGER false Use Apache Ranger
DOWNLOAD_CDH_COMPONENTS true Download CDH components
DOWNLOAD_APACHE_COMPONENTS true Download Apache components

Source Directories for Impala

Environment variable Default value Description
IMPALA_BE_DIR "${IMPALA_HOME}/be" Backend directory. Build output is also stored here.
IMPALA_FE_DIR "${IMPALA_HOME}/fe" Frontend directory
IMPALA_COMMON_DIR "${IMPALA_HOME}/common" Common code (thrift, function registry)

Various Compilation Settings

Environment variable Default value Description
IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS Number of processors. Used for make -j and distcc -j settings.
IMPALA_LINK_THREADS Bounded based on available memory. Used for ninja.
IMPALA_MAKE_CMD "make" Make tool to use by default, options are make or ninja.
IMPALA_MAKE_FLAGS "" Any extra settings to pass to make. Also used when copying udfs / udas into HDFS.
USE_SYSTEM_GCC "0" If set to any other value, directs cmake to not set GCC_ROOT, CMAKE_C_COMPILER, CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER, as well as setting TOOLCHAIN_LINK_FLAGS
IMPALA_CXX_COMPILER "default" Used by cmake (cmake_modules/toolchain and clang_toolchain.cmake) to select gcc / clang
IMPALA_LINKER "gold" Specifies the linker to use; options are "gold", "mold", or "ld".
IS_OSX "false" (Experimental) currently only used to disable Kudu.

Dependencies

Environment variable Default value Description
HADOOP_HOME "${CDP_COMPONENTS_HOME}/hadoop-${IMPALA_HADOOP_VERSION}/" Used to locate Hadoop
HADOOP_INCLUDE_DIR "${HADOOP_HOME}/include" For 'hdfs.h'
HADOOP_LIB_DIR "${HADOOP_HOME}/lib" For 'libhdfs.a' or 'libhdfs.so'
HIVE_HOME "${CDP_COMPONENTS_HOME}/{hive-${IMPALA_HIVE_VERSION}/"
HBASE_HOME "${CDP_COMPONENTS_HOME}/hbase-${IMPALA_HBASE_VERSION}/"
THRIFT_CPP_HOME "${IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN}/thrift-${IMPALA_THRIFT_CPP_VERSION}"
THRIFT_JAVA_HOME "${IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN}/thrift-${IMPALA_THRIFT_JAVA_VERSION}"
THRIFT_PY_HOME "${IMPALA_TOOLCHAIN}/thrift-${IMPALA_THRIFT_PY_VERSION}"

Hive Dependency Overrides

Typically used together to specify a local build of Apache Hive. Care should be taken while using these variables since they take precedence over the defaults in impala-config.sh, they may cause confusion when switching between branches or versions of Apache Impala.

Environment variable Description
HIVE_VERSION_OVERRIDE Used to specify different Hive version from default
HIVE_STORAGE_API_VERSION_OVERRIDE Used to specify different Hive Storage API version from default
HIVE_METASTORE_THRIFT_DIR_OVERRIDE Used to specify location of metastore thrift files to use during Thrift compilation
HIVE_HOME_OVERRIDE Used to specify location of Hive

Ranger Dependency Overrides

Typically used together to specify a local build of Apache Ranger. Care should be taken while using these variables since they take precedence over the defaults in impala-config.sh.

Environment variable Description
RANGER_VERSION_OVERRIDE Used to specify different Ranger version from default
RANGER_HOME_OVERRIDE Used to specify location of Ranger