Building Cassandra Storage Engine for Packaging

Legacy Cassandra storage engine description. Cassandra was removed from MariaDB in MariaDB 10.6.

The Cassandra storage engine was removed in MariaDB 10.6.

These are instructions on how exactly we build Cassandra SE packages.

Getting into build environment

See How_to_access_buildbot_VMs page on the internal wiki. The build VM to use is

ezvm  precise-amd64-build

Get into the VM and continue to next section.

Set up Thrift

mkdir build
cd build
wget https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/thrift/0.8.0/thrift-0.8.0.tar.gz

sudo apt-get install bzr
sudo apt-get install flex

tar zxvf thrift-0.8.0.tar.gz 
cd thrift-0.8.0/

./configure --prefix=/home/buildbot/build/thrift-inst --without-qt4 --without-c_glib --without-csharp --without-java --without-erlang --without-python --without-perl --without-php --without-php_extension --without-ruby --without-haskell --without-go --without-d
make
make install

# free some space
make clean
cd ..

Get the bzr checkout

• Create another SSH connection to terrier, run the script suggested by motd.

• Press (C-a C-c) to create another window

• Copy the base bazaar repository into the VM:

scp /home/psergey/5.5-cassandra-base.tgz runvm:

Then, get back to the window with VM, and run in VM:

tar zxvf ../5.5-cassandra-base.tgz
rm -rf ../5.5-cassandra-base.tgz
cd 5.5-cassandra/
bzr pull lp:~maria-captains/maria/5.5-cassandra

Compile

export LIBS="-lthrift"
export LDFLAGS=-L/home/buildbot/build/thrift-inst/lib

mkdir mkdist
cd mkdist
cmake ..
make dist

basename mariadb-*.tar.gz .tar.gz > ../distdirname.txt

cp mariadb-5.5.25.tar.gz ../
cd ..
tar zxf "mariadb-5.5.25.tar.gz"
mv "mariadb-5.5.25" build
cd build
mkdir mkbin
cd mkbin
cmake -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release ..
make -j4 package

This should end with:

CPack: - package: /home/buildbot/build/5.5-cassandra/build/mkbin/mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64.tar.gz generated.

Free up some disk space:

rm -fr ../../mkdist/

mv mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64.tar.gz ../..
cd ../..
rm -rf build

Patch the tarball to include Thrift

mkdir fix-package
cd fix-package
tar zxvf ../mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Verify that mysqld was built with Cassandra SE:

ldd mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64/bin/mysqld

This should point to libthrift-0.8.0.so.

cp /home/buildbot/build/thrift-inst/lib/libthrift* mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64/lib/
tar czf mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64.tar.gz mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64/
cp mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64.tar.gz ..

Copy the data out of VM

In the second window (the one that's on terrier, but not in VM), run:

mkdir build-cassandra
cd build-cassandra
scp runvm:/home/buildbot/build/5.5-cassandra/mariadb-5.5.25.tar.gz .
scp runvm:/home/buildbot/build/5.5-cassandra/mariadb-5.5.25-linux-x86_64.tar.gz .

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