HDFS-14900. Fix build failure of hadoop-hdfs-native-client. Contributed by Masatake Iwasaki.

BUILDING.txt

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Requirements:
 * Unix System
 * JDK 1.8
 * Maven 3.3 or later
+* Protocol Buffers 3.7.1 (if compiling native code)
 * CMake 3.1 or newer (if compiling native code)
 * Zlib devel (if compiling native code)
 * Cyrus SASL devel (if compiling native code)
@@ -61,6 +62,16 @@ Installing required packages for clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop:
   $ sudo apt-get -y install maven
 * Native libraries
   $ sudo apt-get -y install build-essential autoconf automake libtool cmake zlib1g-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libsasl2-dev
+* Protocol Buffers 3.7.1 (required to build native code)
+  $ mkdir -p /opt/protobuf-3.7-src \
+        && curl -L -s -S \
+          https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.7.1/protobuf-java-3.7.1.tar.gz \
+          -o /opt/protobuf-3.7.1.tar.gz \
+        && tar xzf /opt/protobuf-3.7.1.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /opt/protobuf-3.7-src \
+        && cd /opt/protobuf-3.7-src \
+        && ./configure\
+        && make install \
+        && rm -rf /opt/protobuf-3.7-src
 
 Optional packages:
 
@@ -384,6 +395,15 @@ Installing required dependencies for clean install of macOS 10.14:
 * Install native libraries, only openssl is required to compile native code,
 you may optionally install zlib, lz4, etc.
   $ brew install openssl
+* Protocol Buffers 3.7.1 (required to compile native code)
+  $ wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.7.1/protobuf-java-3.7.1.tar.gz
+  $ mkdir -p protobuf-3.7 && tar zxvf protobuf-java-3.7.1.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C protobuf-3.7
+  $ cd protobuf-3.7
+  $ ./configure
+  $ make
+  $ make check
+  $ make install
+  $ protoc --version
 
 Note that building Hadoop 3.1.1/3.1.2/3.2.0 native code from source is broken
 on macOS. For 3.1.1/3.1.2, you need to manually backport YARN-8622. For 3.2.0,
@@ -409,6 +429,7 @@ Requirements:
 * Windows System
 * JDK 1.8
 * Maven 3.0 or later
+* Protocol Buffers 3.7.1
 * CMake 3.1 or newer
 * Visual Studio 2010 Professional or Higher
 * Windows SDK 8.1 (if building CPU rate control for the container executor)

dev-support/docker/Dockerfile

@@ -105,6 +105,23 @@ RUN mkdir -p /opt/cmake \
 ENV CMAKE_HOME /opt/cmake
 ENV PATH "${PATH}:/opt/cmake/bin"
 
+######
+# Install Google Protobuf 3.7.1 (2.6.0 ships with Xenial)
+######
+# hadolint ignore=DL3003
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/protobuf-src \
+    && curl -L -s -S \
+      https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.7.1/protobuf-java-3.7.1.tar.gz \
+      -o /opt/protobuf.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzf /opt/protobuf.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /opt/protobuf-src \
+    && cd /opt/protobuf-src \
+    && ./configure --prefix=/opt/protobuf \
+    && make install \
+    && cd /root \
+    && rm -rf /opt/protobuf-src
+ENV PROTOBUF_HOME /opt/protobuf
+ENV PATH "${PATH}:/opt/protobuf/bin"
+
 ######
 # Install Apache Maven 3.3.9 (3.3.9 ships with Xenial)
 ######