nealrichardson commented on a change in pull request #7696: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7696#discussion_r452446894
########## File path: cpp/CMakeLists.txt ########## @@ -642,10 +642,6 @@ endif() # # TODO: Also rework how these libs work Review comment: Remove this comment too? ########## File path: cpp/examples/minimal_build/Dockerfile ########## @@ -22,5 +22,6 @@ ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive RUN apt-get update -y -q && \ apt-get install -y -q --no-install-recommends \ build-essential \ - cmake && \ + cmake \ + ninja-build && \ Review comment: Is this required? If not strictly required, maybe comment that this is an optimization, not a hard dependency (since this is the minimal dockerfile) ########## File path: docs/source/developers/cpp/building.rst ########## @@ -347,6 +352,50 @@ You can then invoke CMake to create the build directory and it will use the declared environment variable pointing to downloaded archives instead of downloading them (one for each build dir!). +Statically Linking +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Static linking the Arrow libraries can be tricky depending on your build Review comment: Is it tricky? Doesn't this PR handle most of the trickiness? As a user, it doesn't seem that tricky. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org