From 3305a3521c67ca614c60c83f524a66bb8077d8a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Cutler <cutlerb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 17:21:36 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] added fix for using setuptools_scm to get version outside of
 arrow python dir

---
 python/pyarrow/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
index a245fe6796023..6a613a3b29540 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
    # package is not installed
     try:
         import setuptools_scm
-        __version__ = setuptools_scm.get_version('../')
+        __version__ = setuptools_scm.get_version(root='../../', relative_to=__file__)
     except (ImportError, LookupError):
         __version__ = None