[ARROW-753] [Python] Unit tests in arrow/python fail to link on some OS X platforms

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: C++, Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16369
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 01/Apr/17 22:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:10
• Resolved: 02/Apr/17 18:40

Description

We're using -undefined dynamic_lookup to avoid linking to libpython at link time in the Cython extensions, but this causes problems when building the unit tests in some Python environments.

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-670 Arrow 0.3 release