[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-954) Make it possible to compile Arrow with header-only boost

["Wes McKinney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-954?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Wes McKinney reassigned ARROW-954:
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    Assignee: Philipp Moritz

> Make it possible to compile Arrow with header-only boost
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>                 Key: ARROW-954
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-954
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: C++
>            Reporter: Philipp Moritz
>            Assignee: Philipp Moritz
>             Fix For: 0.4.0
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> 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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