[ARROW-11230] [R] Fix build failures on Windows when multiple libarrow binaries found

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27134
• Assignee: Ian Cook
• Reporter: Ian Cook
• Created: 12/Jan/21 23:01
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:18
• Resolved: 13/Jan/21 01:19

Description

r/configure.win fails to write the contents of r/src/Makevars.win when it finds more than one version of the libarrow binaries in r/windows/. Fix this by finding only the libarrow binary with the highest version number if there is more than one present.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9181