[ARROW-68] Update setup_build_env and third-party script to be more userfriendly

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15488
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Micah Kornfield
• Created: 16/Mar/16 23:58
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:06
• Resolved: 17/Mar/16 22:05

Description

If curl, cmake or make are missing from the users hosts and they run source setup_build_env.sh, the script still runs to completion but doesn't actually work nor does it provide useful errors.