[ARROW-322] [C++] Do not build HDFS IO interface optionally

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15778
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 07/Oct/16 00:10
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:08
• Resolved: 28/Dec/16 13:52

Description

Currently if you have not built arrow::io with -DARROW_HDFS=on then importing pyarrow.parquet fails with a not very graceful error message from failure to find the right symbols in libarrow_io.so. Since we vendor hdfs.h and the libraries are loaded at runtime, having this extra option doesn't add much value.