Philipp Moritz created ARROW-954:
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             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.



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