Installing thrift on CentOS 6.5 64 bit and Cassandra PDO

Question

Possibly my first question in this space. I have been trying to get around this issue from last 2 days. Yeah that seems to be a lot. Here is whats going on

To install thrift I am following somewhat whats on Apache Thirfts website (thrift.apache.org/docs/install/centos/)

 yum install boost-devel  php-devel  pcre-devel  automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig gcc-c++ boost-devel libevent-devel zlib-devel python-devel ruby-devel libtool*

Then I would execute the following commands

cd /opt/
wget https://github.com/apache/thrift/archive/0.9.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf 0.9.1.tar.gz
./bootstrap.sh
./confgure

Here is last bit of error that I am getting

 checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
 checking whether ln -s works... yes
 checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
 checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
 ./configure: line 16498: syntax error near unexpected token `QT,'
 ./configure: line 16498: `    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(QT, QtCore >= 4.3, QtNetwork >= 4.3, have_qt=yes, have_qt=no)'

Here are some other relevant details

 > pkg-config --version
 > 0.23

 > g++ --version
   g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)
   Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 > uname -a
   Linux jas.rnd.local 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Its driving me nuts. Thanks in advance if you can help me out here.

Adjudicate

There are some known issues with Thrift and CentOS (basically because CentOS is what it is). Have you checked thrift.apache.org/docs/install/centos and maybe this mailing list thread mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/thrift-dev/201205.mbox/… and of course stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/thrift+centos? – Feudatory

Thanks Jens, looks like updating to GCC 4.8.1 fixed it and with latest autoconf on board I was able to build thrift and cassandra PDO without any issues – Adjudicate

I hava the same question,but i am Mac OS:#23455999 can you help me? – Irritant

Answer 1

Yeah! seems like updating gcc to 4.8.1 fixed it.

here are some more things I did

 yum install automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig gcc-c++ boost-devel libevent-devel zlib-devel python-devel ruby-devel php-devel openssl openssl-devel


 # update to gcc4.8.1

1. install latest autoconf

2. make sure you have following dependencies

     wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
     tar xvf autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
     cd autoconf-2.69
     ./configure
     make
     make install
   

After above prerequisite I was able to build thrift for php 0.9.1 and I can now communicate with my cluster nodes. I will write detailed steps a bit later

Hope this helps

EDIT 1

Actually I could build thrift and cassandra PDO without gcc 4.8.1, I maybe doing something wrong before. I have written full list of commands, which I am verifying and I will share as a step by step guide later.

EDIT 2

Here is an article I wrote with detailed instructions on what I did to build thrift and cassandra pdo driver

Adjudicate