Twitter Heron libunwind issues on Redhat/CentOS

If your Twitter Heron build fails in Redhat/CentOS with the following error, here is a fix for solving the issue.

First here is the error I got while trying to build Heron 0.14.2 source code.

config.status: executing libtool commands
configure: error: in `/tmp/gperftools.69skq/gperftools-2.4':
configure: error: No frame pointers and no libunwind. The compilation will fail
See `config.log' for more details

Now lets see how we are going to fix this. 

First we need to install libunwind. In my case I don't have permission to install libunwind on this cluster using the package manager yum. So I install it on the home directory using the source code.

$ wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/libunwind/libunwind-1.1.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf libunwind-1.1.tar.gz
$ cd libunwind-1.1
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME
$ make
$ sudo make install

Now lets change the gperftools build in Heron.

vi third_party/gperftools/BUILD

Change the configure command in the genrule section

cmd = "\n".join([
        "export INSTALL_DIR=$$(pwd)/$(@D)",
        "export TMP_DIR=$$(mktemp -d -t gperftools.XXXXX)",
        "mkdir -p $$TMP_DIR",
        "cp -R $(SRCS) $$TMP_DIR",
        "cd $$TMP_DIR",
        "tar xfz " + package_file,
        "cd " + package_dir,
        "./configure --prefix=$$INSTALL_DIR --enable-shared=no LIBS=\"-Wl,--rpath -Wl,/N/u/skamburu/lib -L/N/u/skamburu/lib\" CPPFLAGS=-I/N/u/skamburu/include LDFLAGS=-L/N/u/skamburu/lib",
        "make install",
        "rm -rf $$TMP_DIR",
    ])

Now you should good to compile Heron.