Build Steps

Installing on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

On a fresh AWS Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS instance:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libbz2-dev libaio-dev bison zlib1g-dev libsnappy-dev 
sudo apt-get install libgflags-dev libreadline6-dev libncurses5-dev libssl-dev liblz4-dev gdb git

On Fedora and perhaps Redhat:

sudo yum install cmake gcc-c++ bzip2-devel libaio-devel bison zlib-devel snappy-devel
sudo yum install gflags-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel lz4-devel gdb git

Then setup the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6.git
cd mysql-5.6
git submodule init
git submodule update
cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DWITH_SSL=system -DWITH_ZLIB=bundled -DMYSQL_MAINTAINER_MODE=0 -DENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE=1
make -j8

If you need a debug build, run cmake as follows.

cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_SSL=system -DWITH_ZLIB=bundled -DMYSQL_MAINTAINER_MODE=1

Running mtr tests

cd mysql-test
./mysql-test-run.pl --mem --async-client --parallel=16 --fast --max-test-fail=1000 --retry=0 --force --mysqld=--rocksdb --mysqld=--default-storage-engine=rocksdb --mysqld=--skip-innodb --mysqld=--default-tmp-storage-engine=MyISAM --suite=rocksdb

Installing linkbench

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk maven
git clone https://github.com/facebook/linkbench.git
cd linkbench;
mvn clean package -P fast-test