[ARROW-15388] [C++][CI] Sporadic build failure involving absl::string_view

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: C++, Continuous Integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30871
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 20/Jan/22 11:33
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:36
• Resolved: 20/Jan/22 19:44

Description

It looks like sometimes our vendored Flatbuffers tries to include string_view from a bundled absl build and fails:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/runs/4875005603?check_suite_focus=true#step:6:942

In file included from /arrow/cpp/src/plasma/plasma.cc:25:
In file included from /arrow/cpp/src/plasma/common_generated.h:7:
In file included from /arrow/cpp/thirdparty/flatbuffers/include/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h:20:
In file included from /arrow/cpp/thirdparty/flatbuffers/include/flatbuffers/base.h:217:
absl_ep-install/include/absl/strings/string_view.h:39:10: fatal error: 'absl/base/config.h' file not found
#include "absl/base/config.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12204