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Till Toenshoff commented on MESOS-1071:
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Good point, indeed. I have proposed a way to fix MESOS-550 then that should
comply with this scheme.
> Enable building against installed third-party dependencies.
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> Key: MESOS-1071
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1071
> Project: Mesos
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: build
> Reporter: Benjamin Hindman
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> Most of our third-party dependencies are included in the project and
> statically linked into our resulting binaries and libraries. We would like to
> enable building Mesos but using system installed dependencies instead.
> In certain circumstances this is more difficult because we've actually needed
> to "patch" these libraries (either for C++11 or to alter semantics).
> Rather than eliminating our internal copies of these third-party dependencies
> the first step should be to just enable using external (i.e., system
> installed) dependencies. We already do this for ZooKeeper by allowing people
> to use the --without-included-zookeeper flag during compilation. We should do
> this for other libraries as well. In fact, for the libraries that we have not
> patched (and even for some that we have patched) we should check to see if an
> appropriate system installed dependency exists and preferentially use that
> unless --with-included-dependency is explicitly used.
> Note that this issue represents a stepping stone to removing our third-party
> dependencies from our repository.
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