I am not an expert on this, but it seems you can specify `*_ROOT` arguments to cmake, like https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/ci/PKGBUILD#L90-L91
Maybe that does what you need? Neal On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:45 PM Tahsin Hassan <thas...@mathworks.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to build out arrow 0.15.1. The dependencies for arrow, e.g. > thrift, double-conversion are in a local source folder and we need to build > the dependencies from that location. > > I read up on > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/developers/cpp.rst#offline-builds > > * BUNDLED: Building the dependency automatically from source > * SYSTEM: Finding the dependency in system paths using CMake's > built-in find_package function, or using pkg-config for packages that do > not have this feature > Unfortunately, that’s not exactly what I want. > and > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/developers/cpp.rst#offline-builds > but, that basically downloads the tar(s) into a folder extracts them and > sets up build using that. > e.g. > $./download_dependencies.sh /sandbox/someArrowStuff/ > # Environment variables for offline Arrow build > export ARROW_AWSSDK_URL=/sandbox/someArrowStuff/aws-sdk-cpp-1.7.160.tar.gz > export ARROW_BOOST_URL=/sandbox/someArrowStuff/boost-1.67.0.tar.gz > export ARROW_BROTLI_URL=/sandbox/someArrowStuff/brotli-v1.0.7.tar.gz > … > > > What I kind of wanted was , the set of environment variables that can > allow to set a source folder path > export ARROW_BOOST_MYPATH=/sandbox/someArrowStuff/ 3p/boost/ > where /sandbox/someArrowStuff/ 3p/boost/ already holds the necessary boost > source folder and ARROW_BOOST_MYPATH is somekind of variable to help locate > the necessary source folder. > > Is there some option like that? Where can I dig for more information > regarding that? > > Thanks, > Tahsin > > > > > >
