[ARROW-5165] [Python][Documentation] Build docs don't suggest assigning $ARROW_BUILD_TYPE

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Developer Tools, Documentation, Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21644
• Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
• Reporter: Rok Mihevc
• Created: 12/Apr/19 12:42
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:38
• Resolved: 24/Apr/19 09:11

Description

Build documentation is great. However it does not explicitly suggest assigning a value to `ARROW_BUILD_TYPE` and the error thrown is not obvious:

...
 [100%] Built target _parquet
 – Finished cmake --build for pyarrow
 Bundling includes: include
 error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'include'

This cost me a couple of hours to debug.

Could we include a note in build documentation suggesting devs to run:

export ARROW_BUILD_TYPE=release

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4192