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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-7501:
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On Linux flex/bison should be available in every system package manager, so in
a Docker-image scenario these should be installed at the same time as the
compiler toolchain. On Windows it's not so trivial since we don't necessarily
have a package manager to fall back on
> [C++] CMake build_thrift should build flex and bison if necessary
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> Key: ARROW-7501
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7501
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Neal Richardson
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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> On MSVC and APPLE, {{build_thrift}} will handle thrift's flex and bison
> dependencies:
> [https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/f578521/cpp/cmake_modules/ThirdpartyToolchain.cmake#L1052-L1097]
> But you're on your own on linux. In ARROW-6793, I wrote 100 lines of R code
> to do this for my needs:
> [https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/6068/files#diff-3875fa5e75833c426b36487b25892bd8R204-R309]
> We should translate this to CMake so it's generally available.
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