Installation fails on Alpine Linux

[brawer]

On Alpine Linux, make install fails to install RocksDB. This is because the RocksDB Makefile currently calls the install command with option -C, which is not supported by Busybox. On Alpine Linux, the install command is implemented by Busybox, not GNU coreutils.

Do you actually need to pass the -C option to the install command?

Steps to reproduce

First, put the following text into Dockerfile. Second, run docker build -t bug . to build.

FROM alpine:20200122
RUN apk add build-base git libtool perl  \
    bzip2-dev gflags-dev lz4-dev snappy-dev zlib-dev zstd-dev
RUN git clone --branch master --single-branch  \
    https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git /build/rocksdb
RUN cd /build/rocksdb && make install

Observed output:

[...]
for header in `find "include/rocksdb" -type f -name *.h`; do \
	install -C -m 644 $header /usr/local/$header; \
done
install: unrecognized option: C
BusyBox v1.31.1 () multi-call binary.

Usage: install [-cdDsp] [-o USER] [-g GRP] [-m MODE] [-t DIR] [SOURCE]... DEST

Copy files and set attributes

	-c	Just copy (default)
	-d	Create directories
	-D	Create leading target directories
	-s	Strip symbol table
	-p	Preserve date
	-o USER	Set ownership
	-g GRP	Set group ownership
	-m MODE	Set permissions
	-t DIR	Install to DIR
make: *** [Makefile:1732: install-headers] Error 1
The command '/bin/sh -c cd /build/rocksdb && make install' returned a non-zero code: 2

[adamretter]

I am not sure if this is helpful or not, but I have a Docker Alpine3 build environment that we use for creating RocksJava releases. I just tested make install on there and it works fine.

Our Docker image is: evolvedbinary/rocksjava:alpine3_x64-be

[riversand963]

#9294 indicates that people are building RocksDB on Alphine Linux 32 bit. Closing this issue for now because it's unlikely a bug, or it has been fixed.