Currently if you have not built arrow::io with -DARROW_HDFS=on then importing pyarrow.parquet fails with a not very graceful error message from failure to find the right symbols in libarrow_io.so. Since we vendor hdfs.h and the libraries are loaded at runtime, having this extra option doesn't add much value.
Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-322. Please see the migration documentation for further details.