Undefined symbol causes sasl.saslwrapper module to fail to load

[andrewbenton]

On Fedora23 using Anaconda 2/3 I'm getting an import error on sasl.saslwrapper with an undefined symbol _ZTVNSt7__cxx1118basic_stringstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE. This prevents other libraries like pyhive from being used

[wesm]

@andrewbenton Fedora 23 ships with GCC 5.x, which has a new std::string ABI -- did you build this library from source? We may need to add -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 to this package build. Any other info about your environment I can try to advise on how to fix

[andrewbenton]

I built it from source since it wasn't packaged with anaconda. I found later that when I run the built version with the system version of python, it works. What other information would you find useful?

[wesm]

Got it. Yes, this means you need to build any C++ code with the flag "-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0" if you're using it with Anaconda — you can use the approach from here

https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/1c668742679bb00b5c851c80071c3232aa68441a/python/setup.py#L119

There may be a way to do this with an environment variable that doesn't require modifying setup.py. Can you see if that works for you?