[ARROW-3988] [C++] Do not build unit tests by default in build system

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20591
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 10/Dec/18 16:30
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:31
• Resolved: 12/Dec/18 15:19

Description

This is partly an RFC: given that many people are building the C++ library in order to develop or test other parts of Apache Arrow, it might make sense to opt-in to building the unit tests rather than opting out. There are additional system requirements to build the unit tests, such as a newer version of CMake

kou suggested this originally here

https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/3140#issuecomment-445694144

In principle I'm in favor of this

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3156