Aha thanks Antoine! After digging the log I think I found the issue: " -- clang-tidy 12 not found -- clang-format 12 not found "
after installing those two it got me over that step.. A side question - does running " archery lint --cpplint --clang-format --clang-tidy --fix " supposed to fix the lint / code style? On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:57 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Le 28/04/2022 à 16:54, Li Jin a écrit : > > Hello! > > > > I am preparing for submitting a PR and reading the "Code style and > Linting" > > section of the development doc: > > > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/developers/cpp/development.rst#code-style-linting-and-ci > > > > I got to the point that I am running > > "" > > archery lint --cpplint --clang-format --clang-tidy --fix > > "" > > but got > > """ > > ninja: error: unknown target 'format' > > """ > > Don't you get an error before that one? Can you post the entire log > somewhere? >