[ARROW-16886] [C++] Add option to disable PIC

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 8.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32208
• Assignee: Kouhei Sutou
• Reporter: Jimmy Lu
• Created: 22/Jun/22 21:27
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:47
• Resolved: 04/Jul/22 04:10

Description

Currently CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENEDNT_CODE is always set to ON in cmake. In some use cases we want to build non-PIC static lib for performance reason, it would be nice to have an option to disable PIC in the build.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13475