[jira] [Created] (THRIFT-5451) Thrift compiler binary distributions

["Benjamin Marwell (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Benjamin Marwell created THRIFT-5451:
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             Summary: Thrift compiler binary distributions
                 Key: THRIFT-5451
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-5451
             Project: Thrift
          Issue Type: Dependency upgrade
          Components: Build Process, Compiler (General), Website
         Environment: Mac OS "Big Sur" which ships with bison 2.3.
            Reporter: Benjamin Marwell


Hi everyone,

Windows distributions are available due to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-871.

It would be great to have a compiler for more platforms, e.g.
 * Linux x64
 * Mac x64
 * Mac arm64
 * possibly others (Linux s390x, Linux ppc64le, AIX ppc64)

Rationale:
 * I was unable to build it on Mac, because xcode ships with bison 2.3, but Thrift requires bison 2.5. setting YACC=/usr/bin/yacc did not work, configure was still using bison.
 * the maven plugin could be extended to download binary distributions. The protobuf-maven-plugin and the frontend-maven-plugin do the same things. This is a common scheme for maven plugins, because usually all prerequisites are handled by maven plugins.

 



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