[ARROW-4326] [C++] Development instructions in python/development.rst will not work for many Linux distros with new conda-forge toolchain

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: C++, Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20896
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 22/Jan/19 22:19
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:33
• Resolved: 17/Mar/19 21:27

Description

I spent some time today trying to migrate my Ubuntu 14.04 machine over to use the latest conda-forge packages based on the Anaconda gcc7 toolchain

If you follow development.rst you will most likely have problems. I needed to install the gcc_linux-64 and gxx_linux-64 packages to get the gcc7 compilers. Arrow wouldn't build out of the box for me after this, with linker errors related to pthread. According to the conda-forge developers a workaround is here

https://github.com/conda-forge/eccodes-feedstock/blob/master/recipe/build.sh#L11

There may be some other way around the issue