[ARROW-3436] [C++] Boost version required by Gandiva is too new for Ubuntu 14.04

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19760
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 04/Oct/18 09:18
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:27
• Resolved: 20/Nov/18 05:00

Description

I encountered this bug when testing a non-conda-toolchain build on Ubuntu Trusty

[ 56%] Building CXX object src/gandiva/CMakeFiles/lru_cache_test.dir/lru_cache_test.cc.o
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/gandiva/lru_cache_test.cc: In member function ‘virtual void gandiva::TestLruCache_TestLruBehavior_Test::TestBody()’:
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/gandiva/lru_cache_test.cc:62:188: error: ‘class boost::optional<std::basic_string<char> >’ has no member named ‘value’
   ASSERT_EQ(cache_.get(TestCacheKey(1)).value(), "hello");
                                                                                                                                                                                            ^
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/gandiva/lru_cache_test.cc:62:203: error: template argument 1 is invalid
   ASSERT_EQ(cache_.get(TestCacheKey(1)).value(), "hello");
                                                                                                                                                                                                           ^
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/gandiva/lru_cache_test.cc:62:294: error: ‘class boost::optional<std::basic_string<char> >’ has no member named ‘value’
   ASSERT_EQ(cache_.get(TestCacheKey(1)).value(), "hello");
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ^
make[2]: *** [src/gandiva/CMakeFiles/lru_cache_test.dir/lru_cache_test.cc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/gandiva/CMakeFiles/lru_cache_test.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Abseil has a std::optional backport, so we could switch from using boost::optional if/when we start using Abseil https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/types/optional.h