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# Regenerate cmake files and rebuild backend only:.
./bin/make_impalabuildall.sh <arguments>-cmake_only
# Rebuild impalad binary only:
make -j ${IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS} impalad
# Rebuild a backend test binary only:
make -j ${IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS} buffered-block-mgr-test
# Rebuild frontend only:
make fe
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Pass the right command line flags to skip unnecessary work:
- Add -notests to make_impala.sh or buildall.sh command to skip building backend tests
- Pass -noclean to buildall.sh if you don't need to do a full clean
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# Install the ccache package (this example works on Ubuntu)
sudo apt-get install ccache
# Make sure you have a high limit on your max ccache size to ensure it is effective
ccache --max-size=50G |
Note: If you work on the same machine locally and remotely, make sure you use the same environment. ssh client can send through environment variables (and will do it by default for some, e.g. $LC_CTYPE), which is included by ccache for hashing and causes a cache miss even if the environment variable does not affect the build and the artifact is already cached.
For more information how to control the sent/received environment variables with ssh config: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29609371/how-not-to-pass-the-locale-through-an-ssh-connection-command
Ninja - speeds up incremental builds
Ninja is an alternative to make that can resolve dependencies much faster. If there is nothing to build, ninja returns almost instantaneously where make can take 10+ secondsThis can save 10+ seconds per invocation compared to make, which is significant for incremental builds (the difference in speed between ninja and make for full builds is minor compared to the end-to-end runtime of the build).
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# Install the ninja package (this example works on Ubuntu)
sudo apt-get install ninja-build
# Instead of ./bin/make_impala.sh ...:
./bin/make_impala.sh ... -ninja
# Instead of ./buildall.sh ...:
./buildall.sh ... -ninja
# Instead of make -j ${IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS} <targets>:
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Gold Linker - speeds up linking of test executables
Add this to your .bashrc:
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export USE_GOLD_LINKER=true
# You can use an alias to make ninja use IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS by default
alias ninja='ninja -j ${IMPALA_BUILD_THREADS}'
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Using distcc
The instructions for using distcc are in bin/distcc/README.md
Skip checking toolchain dependencies (advanced only)
By default buildall.sh will check for toolchain and python package updates, which can add some time to buildall.sh invocations. You can disable this by adding this line to bin/impala-config-local.sh:
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export SKIP_TOOLCHAIN_BOOTSTRAP=true |
If you do this then you may run into build failures because of missing dependencies, and you will need to temporarily disable this optimisation or directly download the dependencies (e.g. by running bin/bootstrap_toolchain.py)