Philipp Moritz created ARROW-954: ------------------------------------ Summary: Make it possible to compile Arrow with header-only boost Key: ARROW-954 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-954 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement Components: C++ Reporter: Philipp Moritz
For certain build environments, it can be beneficial to have a version of arrow that only depends on boost headers: - It is less brittle in terms of supporting different build environments than dynamically or statically linked boost libraries; also it might make it easier to integrate with an in-tree boost in the future. - Especially if dynamically linked boost libraries need to be avoided, but the resulting binary is compiled as a shared library python extension, statically linking boost is not an option (many distributions distribute boost static libraries that were compiled without -fPIC) We should therefore have a flag that makes arrow compile with a header-only boost. This comes at the cost of not supporting the HDFS bridge. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)