[ARROW-4230] [C++] Enable building flight against system gRPC

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: C++, FlightRPC
• Labels: flight pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20810
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 10/Jan/19 17:04
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:32
• Resolved: 23/Jan/19 00:01

Description

Right now Flight assumes that gRPC is vendored or that it is installed with CMake. It would be easier to build if it accepted other installations of gRPC, such as ones from Conda (eventually) or system package managers.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3370