[ARROW-306] Add option to pass cmake arguments via environment variable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15724
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 27/Sep/16 16:36
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:08
• Resolved: 29/Sep/16 01:44

Description

Add an alternative way to pass extra cmake arguments via an environment variable as in some situations it is hard to pass these arguments to the build_ext step.