In diagnosing broken builds that started showing up in the last 24 hours I seem to have tracked it down to the CMake update to 3.9.0: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/arrow/build/1.0.2593/job/q484cyl1one8gn2l here's the appveyor support case http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/7188-odd-cmake-build-failures-unrelated-to-code-changes