From e9da3fa481721e0b39ea9c9a3060a5d43d823064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Uwe L. Korn" <uwelk@xhochy.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:37:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add option to pass cmake arguments via environment variable

Change-Id: Ib5addb2fae925bd755bc0441071aacbcba240ff0
---
 python/setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index a5db2b025e6ef..d1be122888e7b 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def run(self):
 
     def initialize_options(self):
         _build_ext.initialize_options(self)
-        self.extra_cmake_args = ''
+        self.extra_cmake_args = os.environ.get('PYARROW_CMAKE_OPTIONS', '')
 
     CYTHON_MODULE_NAMES = [
         'array',