Daniel Bartholomew <dbart@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I'm getting ready to install jemalloc on the buildslaves for
TODO-459 -
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/TODO-459 , and wanted to know
if
there was a preferred way to do it. Since we want to use a specific
version of jemalloc (3.1.0), I figured I would build from source on
all
of the build machines.
Has this been thought through properly with respect to packaging? My
guess is
it has not.
For .debs, which are what I know about, it is generally expected that
one can
rebuild from `apt-get source mariadb-server`. This requires proper
build
dependencies. It doesn't work to install random stuff on random
machines.
It does not appear that jemalloc 3.1 is available on most .deb
distros we
support. Wheezy seems to have 3.0.0.
It is said that tokutek "requires" jemalloc - maybe it would be
better to fix
tokutek to work with standard libraries?
The proper way to produce .debs with custom jemalloc requires
creating new
custom packages for libjemalloc and including them in our repos.
