I agree that the *_ROOT variables should be the way. If you find one that does not work, please open a JIRA issue.
I don't think this is documented well enough in http://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/cpp.html#build-dependency-management so I'm opening an issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7221 On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:49 PM Neal Richardson <neal.p.richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
