Hi All,
I wanted to get your opinion on installing the 3rdparty packages glog,
protobuf, boost and picojson[1] when installing Mesos itself. These
packages are required to build Mesos modules.
Currently, a module write has to manually install these 3rdparty
packages, either system-wide or locally, and update the compilation
flags such as CPPFLAGS to point to the installation which is
error-prone. Further, one might have a system-wide installation with
the wrong package version, causing even more headache.
The proposal here is to install these 3rdparty packages when
installing Mesos. To avoid any conflicts with system-wide or local
installation, we can install them as follows:
${PREFIX}/include/mesos/3rdparty -- for header files
${PREFIX}/<LIBDIR>/mesos/3rdparty -- for library files (LIBDIR can be
lib or lib64 depending upon the installation)
where PREFIX refers to the `--prefix` flag for Mesos configure script.
We would then update `mesos.pc` with the correct flags so that a
module write can simply use `pkg-config` to get all the required
flags.
I have created an issue
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-4434 to track this.
Best,
Kapil
[1]: picojson is currently installed in ${PREFIX}/include. See
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3909
