[ARROW-11736] [R] Allow string compute functions to be optional

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27593
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Neal Richardson
• Created: 22/Feb/21 21:47
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:21
• Resolved: 26/Mar/21 17:17

Description

The Solaris build fails to build libarrow_bundled_dependencies.a because of some mismatch of arguments to the ar command:

[ 19%] Bundling /export/home/XnknpBn/Rtemp/RtmpBOhxfH/file66df7a592ae4/release/libarrow_bundled_dependencies.a
gmake[2]: Entering directory '/export/home/XnknpBn/Rtemp/RtmpBOhxfH/file66df7a592ae4'
usage: ar -d[-SvV] archive file ...
       ar -m[-abiSvV] [posname] archive file ...
       ar -p[-vV][-sS] archive [file ...]
       ar -q[-cuvSV] [-abi] [posname] [file ...]
       ar -r[-cuvSV] [-abi] [posname] [file ...]
       ar -t[-vV][-sS] archive [file ...]
       ar -x[-vV][-sSCT] archive [file ...]
gmake[2]: *** [src/arrow/CMakeFiles/arrow_bundled_dependencies.dir/build.make:61: release/libarrow_bundled_dependencies.a] Error 1

If ARROW_PARQUET=OFF (ARROW-11735), the only dependencies to bundle are re2 and utf8proc. So we could either fix the ar invocation, or we could make re2 and utf8proc optional. Build-wise, they are optional, but we have some tests that call the string kernels, and we'd need to know that they should be skipped (i.e. another option in skip_if_not_available().

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9809