[ARROW-330] [C++] CMake functions to simplify shared / static library configuration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15794
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 10/Oct/16 15:07
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:08
• Resolved: 28/Dec/16 15:54

Description

We're accumulating a lot of boilerplate for setting various properties (like RPATH on OS X) to make shared libraries work well. We also are not consistently building static libraries (see ARROW-303). We would benefit from a helper macro function to rearrange this cmake code in a more reusable form